Confusion (of the highest order) about Venat and Sundering

[Iscah]

While it's debatable if the Sundering killed the Sundered (I would argue it did, at least to the same degree as the Rejoining, since in both cases no "soul essence" is destroyed, just divided or re-assimilated at the expense of the original identity) I think they're talking about the sacrifices. People were still sacrificed to summon Hydaelyn.

I think the difference is that Hydaelyn's summoners were voluntarily giving up their own lives to achieve what they thought was important, whereas the people planning to sacrifice "some portion of life on the planet" may have been trying to sacrifice sentient life without their agreement.

We still don't have enough answers about what really happened then. Just one unsatisfactorily allegorical scene that doesn't line up with Emet's account in Shadowbringers, and arguably paints Venat in a worse light than he did.