Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
Except they were the only thing keeping humanity from collapsing on itself and they were preventing it’s extinction. Yes they locked up the Espers because they literally led a revolt against them with Ultima at the head of it all. Yes they manipulated Ashe, because what Venat was doing would doom both sides and in the end it essentially did. Magic is slowly sucked out of the world. We see partial results of all of this in 12-2 as well. Venat’s actions caused untold suffering for the rest of humanity and the worlds existence. The “freedom” was a bit of a sham as humanity itself mostly had freedom, it was only until they would cause themselves to wipe themselves out that the occuria intervened.
Instead of letting humanity handle things itself. I dunno if you've played Mass Effect, but you just argued for the Reaper outlook of why they need to destroy civilizations before they get too technologically advanced. And they're the bad guys.