Quote Originally Posted by ApolloGenX View Post
Sorry but Venat is just as manipulative as the rest of the Ascians... she just had a different plan.

Those ancients sure did like to manipulate people/things.
And the thing is how in FFXIV manipulators have always been seen as the most evil beings, from the syndicate in Ul'dah to Thordan to Varis to Vauthry and Emet-Selch, even when they have good intention (Thordan for example).

It seems to me like Hydaelyn's character, if it were allowed to write itself, would want to be evil... something that we want to kill to free humanity of scheming gods. But it's not allowed to. Ergo so many people giving her the weird look.