*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[KizuyaKatogami]

A poacher is someone who hunts rare animals illegally for money. In the world of the ancients, everyone has godlike powers, and wants for nothing. There would never be a poacher because nobody needs any money - because anyone, even children, could make pretty much anything they wanted with their godlike powers. Before the final days, no ancient ever struggled to make rent payments, or found themselves wondering how they would feed their children, or had an illness they couldn't afford to treat. All their basic needs were accounted for, at all times. Without a struggle for survival, without a world that has poverty or war, of course they were able to focus on bettering themselves and the star. This doesn't make them "superior" to the sundered people. It means they are starting with a distinct advantage that no sundered person would ever get. (or to steal a quote from another science fiction franchise "It's easy to be a saint in paradise." )

And even so - their society had flaws. Evidenced by the fact that people like Hermes felt the need to suffer alone, despite misgivings he had about the way things worked.

I’m not saying they’re flawless, but people are bashing them for things the sundered do far worse in is my point. People claim that both the sundered and the unsundered are the same when they aren’t. There’s no such thing as a perfect society in anything, but i think it’s fairly obvious the ancient world was pretty up there compared to the sundered world. Hermes felt the need to suffer alone but that’s his own fault, as we meet other npc’s who share the same misgivings as him, it seems that he himself didn’t go out and look and interact with said people. Also thank you for pointing out, you’re entirely correct. The ancients didn’t have to worry about illness or age, both things that venat herself created when she sundered the world and everyone on it. She made beings susceptible to those things so all those deaths can be pinned on her. Also i’d say a being is pretty superior if it’s essentially immortal and immune to illness than one that can die from the flu. My poacher comment seems to have gone over your head as it wasn’t even a poacher specific thing but an example, of the sundered committing worse things or doing the same things as the ancient world but people bash the ancient world for doing so and turn a blind eye to the sundered when they do it. Please look at the examples i have with eden primals,egi’s,poroggo familiars, because it seems like those points are being purposely avoided as they refute many of the opposition people have with the ancients.