Quote Originally Posted by tokinokanatae View Post
There was already a mechanism in place to show respect for dead creations.
Well, there was an existing mechanism in place to use time magic to accelerate the decomposition process of dead creations. That's a bit like suggesting that a trash compactor is the equivalent of a hearse.

You don't even have to go digging through the side quests to see the core problem, though. The Amaurotians saw their creations as tools to be created and destroyed at a whim, something that they justified because they presumably had no souls (although 'Through His Eyes' suggests that this might be more complex than we presently understand. If you take away Hermes' discomfort and alienation from the fact that he's the only one who sees the idea of killing off an species and replacing it with a better one as a problem, you have no main conflict. Even Venat's faction steps in to pluck away their collective godhood when they move from 'let's sacrifice more of ourselves to Zodiark' to 'lets sacrifice the other life on the planet to get back our friends'. The main challenge that Hermes throws at us is: Can you learn to respect and value life?