Quote Originally Posted by Veloran View Post
But that's not what SE wrote. Venat merely suggests keeping Hermes in the dark because he is a "brilliant mind" and could be useful, at no point is he given specific credit for any part of Zodiark's creation or discovering the solution.

But more importantly, Venat still didn't tell them even after Zodiark was created and the Final Days halted. At that point if Hermes had been crucial to their prior success, it had already been achieved and he had outlived his usefulness. At that point there is no excuse not to reveal the truth.
I'm fairly certain that in one of the conversations leading up to Elpis that is is stated that Fandaniel/Hermes was the person who discovered that the Final days phenomena was occurring where the celestial aether currents were weakest therefore, even if he missed the mark on the true cause, he was still the one to discover the relationship between weak aether fields and the final days manifesting.