*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[EaraGrace]

I've been wondering why people are desperate to argue that the third sacrifice would have just been some plants and non-sentient animals - when it flies in the face of the thematic meaning of the story, makes every character involved look like an idiot, and has not been mentioned once by a single character, ever. And the only conclusion I can see is that it's because it makes Venat look bad. If she tried to prevent the ancients from sundering a bunch of cows and chickens, she would be silly and callous - if she tried to prevent them from sacrificing ensouled peoples, she'd be sundering them in order to prevent her own people from committing genocide. I don't know about anyone else, but I know which one I think is more in keeping with the themes of the story being told.

No matter how unsupported by any textual evidence it is, and how frankly, silly and absurd it is, people are going to keep bringing up the possibility of a livestock powered Zodiark because they have an axe to grind against Venat.

There’s a lot of axes people have to grind with Venat. It becomes clear when we get to the core of things, which is why Venat would take such drastic measures and Sunder the world she loves. She is either a woefully incompetent idiot who didn’t bother with trying to save the Ancients and instead subjected people to untold suffering for no reason, or she is a narcissistic sociopath who lies every time she speaks and simply wished to play goddess.

Both require an incredible amount of leaps, in the text and out of it.

[thegreatonemal]

There’s a lot of axes people have to grind with Venat. It becomes clear when we get to the core of things, which is why Venat would take such drastic measures and Sunder the world she loves. She is either a woefully incompetent idiot who didn’t bother with trying to save the Ancients and instead subjected people to untold suffering for no reason, or she is a narcissistic sociopath who lies every time she speaks and simply wished to play goddess.

Both require an incredible amount of leaps, in the text and out of it.

What part of aether dense beings have absolutely no hope of facing a being who controls dynamis are people having a hard time understanding. As mankind was they had no chance against stopping the Final Day, nor stopping the heat death of the universe from being sped up. Sundering gave us a chance to fight back. She wasn't even sure it would work but even a .01% chance is better than the 0% chance they had before the sundering.