Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
Where does it say Zodiark asked his tempered followers to supply more aether? To my knowledge that isn’t said anywhere. Also Hydaelyn wasn’t summoned to protect the life of the world. Her sole purpose was created to keep Zodiark in check. They emphasize this with Venat where it isn’t even so much the sacrifices that bother her, but Zodiark’s power. In the Tales of the Shadows short story, they even say it wasn’t just the tempered people who were agreeing about restoring their loved ones, but untempered as well.
All we know about Venat sadly is the few scenes we have with her. We don't know enough about her to make a call based on her past self, but we know enough about Hydaelyn's actions since 2.0 to where we can make a call on how the primal Hydaelyn possibly feels about everything. If she only wanted to keep the seal intact on Zodiark, she'd have been absorbing Aether from other sources to keep the seal intact. But she hasn't taken any Aether from any of the shards, she seems to have been running out of power, as Lahabrea stated back in Praetorium way back in 2.0. Her sole purpose wasn't just to keep Zodiark in check, but it is indeed one of the purposes behind her summoning.

Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
Emet-Selch and the other unsundered thus far seem like the only reason that plan didn't pan out in the end...which makes me further question how they managed to escape an event of such a scale.
Considering it only effected the planet since otherworldly visitors are common...I'd say they weren't on the planet when it happened.