Quote Originally Posted by KariTheFox View Post
By sundering the ancients, she is forcing them to live up to thier own ideas about serving the star and then returning to the aetherial sea so that they can be born into new life. Thier civilization was dying already, and the ancients had turned thier back on their role as custodians of the star by wanting to sacrifice its new life to bring back thier own.
This reminds me of a situation where someone you know or love has fallen into addiction or made choices you don't agree with that's destroying their life/making them sick etc. In the end, that person has to decide to get help. You can't force someone to make a different choice. I don't believe in in taking over someone's body/agency to force them to become clean or choose a different path.

Let me try a different example: I've spoken with people online who are radical environmentalists - they believe we as humans are destroying the planet and that the only way we can make things right is by ending civilization and going back to a hunter gatherer lifestyle. They're the minority in our society as far as how to fix climate change. Let's say they form a small group of supporters and decide that since we are too misguided to stop our ways they are going to force us to become better as humanity by turning off everyone's power and destroying a bunch of technology. Let's say they succeed and the whole world is without power. Millions of people who depend on technology to keep them alive in hospitals end up dying and we end up back in a stone age type of lifestyle. To this small group of supporters, they believe they are doing the right thing and that one day humanity will be better off. Are they the heroes or the villains in this case?