Quote Originally Posted by HappyHubris View Post
Personally, my headcanon retcon is that Venat was mind-wiped, because anything else makes her the worst monster in the series.
Were you not paying attention to the whole post Elpis cutscene? Venat admits she is a monster and nothing she did was just or righteous, it was necessary for Man to move forward and overcome despair. She doesn't consider herself a hero or good, she did what she thought was necessary and accepts the condemnation for it, one reason she didn't show her primal form was so she wouldn't be the embodiment of hydaelyn but that the crystal itself would.

Emet even comments on this after he's "revived" saying that Venat brought Man further then they could have; he says this after coming back from spending the past what 20k years living through the sundering and then regaining his memories from Elpis.