Quote Originally Posted by Kordarion View Post
We don't know the portal wouldn't be irreparably closed, it could stay open but that doesn't mean it WILL stay open. That's what I'm trying to point out here is that we DON'T know what would happen, it could stay open or it could close we just don't know.
And yet the argument against helping is predicated on the idea that it is impossible, when that isn't even supposed anywhere in the story. Even if someone were to think that so, how many times have we done the impossible before to save people? Since when is it accepted to give up on saving people because of the perceived hurdles to doing it? We already know with the Crystal Tower that multi-timeline time travel is possible, at the very least.

Quote Originally Posted by Kordarion View Post
Just because we don't know what events happened during a period of time doesn't mean nothing happened during that time period. Because that is what you are arguing, that our lack of knowledge of what Venat did must mean she did nothing. She may have sat on her arse and done nothing but the way she has been characterised pre-sundering suggests that she wouldn't and it would be well out of character for her to do nothing instead of trying to do something. But in the end we don't know and you simply make baseless assumptions and present them as facts despite have no basis for them. If anyone is being disingenuous here it is you for pushing your personal beliefs as fact without providing any evidence or reasoning as to why that would happen.
A moment ago you insisted I provide evidence to support my position, so I'll ask that of you now - Where is your evidence of Venat's action during that period? I assume she did nothing because there is no evidence she did anything, and even tangential evidence she did not, such as the complete lack of any rescued outsiders among her group in Akademia and the non-element of the defenses that she suggests making at the end of Elpis. Why should I believe she acted? Because it would be "in her character"? Based on her stated beliefs I should also not think that she would reach the conclusion that her people would never change, yet that is the notion she hit upon.