Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
And the sending with the flowers was created by us because they questioned us what we do to the death. So before they just returned them to aether. I do like the quest chain because we are able to question their belief. When the one Anient talks about the isle where they grow vegetables the "normal sundered" way, she says that she finds it useless because the results are not perfect. We are able to ask if only a perfect being is allowed to exist and then she realized that we as familiar would also fall under the not perfect and things about it. That shows that they are of course able to change but that even someone as nice as her is still stuck in the "everything perfect way".

The quest chain is still just one side of Elpis. The rest still dont have any problems with just disposing of the creatures. And its quite shown in just the MSQ. After all Hermes would not have such a negative outlook in life if most people were like the ones that at least gave them a sending. I mean he himself also still creates creatures to send out on his behalf.

I guess one can say that if they would have created less perfect beings that would even do some really bad things outside of Elpis they might have had been more used to grief. Maybe then they would have not planned that third sacrifice and life would have gone on.
The whole thing about "being used to grief" or death is very weird for me in the context of the ancients because several of their actions suggest they should know about it quite well but then they apparently don't? For example, the entire reason visitors to Elpis have to remove their masks is because the creations there can hurt them. That might just be excellent foresight on their part but other quests confirm that the ancients can and do get hurt by their creations with one guy even saying that he sends familiars to do dangerous work so he doesn't have to risk himself. Erichthonios mentions mercenaries, which is weird if allegedly there was no war, and expanding on that point, Emet-Selch and Venat have tanking abilities which also seems weird if the whole world was mostly peaceful. It seems like dying from an accident or some other way other than "returning to the star" is fairly rare but then given the existence of what I mentioned, seems like random deaths should be more common and more people should have been used to grief and sorrow than it seems like.