Quote Originally Posted by Denishia View Post
Insert joke about how the Ancient society ruled by Amaurot states that they solve conflicts and run their society off of rational logical debate and discussion, but have the same emotions as all the sundered people of Etheirys (if, as Hermes showcased, a lack of emotional wisdom and support that does feel like a pointed critique towards the handling of mental health issues) and like anyone claiming to argue based on facts and logic being the first red flag that the debate will be about and run off of emotional biases.
Amaurot definitely feels like a very emotionally immature society for how intellectually enlightened they are. There's a lot of relatively simple things they never seemed to consider, they're EXTREMELY bad at dealing with mental health issues (RIP Hermes, therapy hadn't been invented yet), and are so emotionally unprepared for great turmoil that Venat had to screen people for 'being okay to hear bad news', and was right to. If we can trust Emet's Amaurot to be accurate, then people were making grossly violent children's toys and not seeing a problem with that.

It doesn't make their demise any less tragic or the society any less worthy of life, but it does mean I don't want to live there. And in retrospect, makes their struggle against an End of Days fuelled by emotionally-charged energy both darkly ironic and deeply unsurprising. Meteion was basically their kryptonite, in every possible way.