Quote Originally Posted by Veloran View Post
Frankly the more I think about Venat's solution, the more problems I have with it.

Venat sundered the Ancients because they lacked the ability to manipulate Dynamis, and because she considered their society self-destructive, so she killed them in order to bring about the advent of a people and state of being that she considered more worthy of living. This is in fact the exact motivation of Emet-Selch and the Ascians, simply flipped on it's head to favor the sundered rather than the unsundered. Now on one level I think there's an element of parallelism at play that makes for excellent storytelling, but on another Venat's portrayal often seems so black-and-white that I'm really not sure if this was even the intent. Either way I can hardly see it as anything except the peak of hypocrisy.
A reborn Amaurot would not be the same Amaurot that came before it and would revolve around Zodiark. I'm not sure why people keep forgetting that point. The actions and attitude of the Ascians make it apparent that it would change from a society devoted to the Star to one devoted to their living god. The past they craved is lost forever outside of time shenanigans. Venat's actions make more sense when you realize what a post-Final Days Amaurot would actually be like.

Additionally, as mentioned before, Zodiark would have just put a band-aid on the problem since Meteion was speeding up the end of the universe. While one of Venat's two includes stopping it at its source.

But regardless of anyone's personal opinions on the story or character motivations are, that's the angle the writers went with and even a memory-restored, untempered Emet-Selch chooses ours and Venat's side over Elidibus and aids us in fundamentally destroying the whole Ascian plan and ruining the chance at a restored Amaurot and Zodiark.