Confusion (of the highest order) about Venat and Sundering

[Kordarion]

What agency does someone have when contracting a terminal illness, or dying thousands of years before they would have previously? Where's the agency in starving to death in a famine, or being conscripted to go die in a war for resources, or being mauled by a beast and perishing from your wounds? Even the agency of the petty thief or the gluttonous oligarch is undermined in that the conditions of their existence which motivates their actions was created by someone else. Again, all intentionally.

Your right there is no agency in any of those but unfortunately that is life. Shit does happen that we can't control. You seem to have this idea that the ancients had perfect agency over every single facet of their lives, and maybe they did but that would be a pretty uninteresting story if your protagonists could do whatever they wanted no trouble, nothing getting in their way. Not to mention entirely unrealistic. My point to reiterate it is there is plenty of agency that Venat did rob from the sundered but that to blame everything on her is to steal what agency they do have left, the agency to enact change, the agency to hope and to dream and the agency to make bad choices like arguing with someone on the internet who seems to think that Venat is the root of all evil when she was left to try and deal with Hermes ill thought out mess. Was she a perfect individual and did she make mistakes, certainly in the end she is only human just like us and wanted to do what is right no matter how many mistakes she made and impossible choices she was faced with.

I don't see any of us doing a better job than she did, not when there are so many things that could go wrong that we know nothing of.