*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[SpectrePhantasia]

I've said it before, but the writing's decision to leave the actual precise events of the Sundering as vague and indirect (Transparently done in pursuit of making both sides sympathetic) is what's led to these headaches. And I don't even mean what constitutes the 'new life' intended for the 3rd sacrifice. In my personal opinion it likely meant actual people with souls, but that is the least of my concerns. Where was Elidibus in all of this? He saw the resistance that Venat's faction took a stand for, and listened to them, disconnecting himself from Zodiark to reconcile things. Surely a 3rd sacrifice would not have taken place with the Heart himself vacant? Did Venat ignore him and use his departure as the chance she needed to sunder Zodiark? Did she not realize he'd left in an attempt to parley?

Debating the ethics of the 3rd sacrifice is all well and good, but this presented information is telling me it may not have happened at all, had things run their course. Speaking in inevitabilities like what would have become of the Ancient society is useless because we just don't know. We don't have enough details and we can't peek into what might have happened. All we have is stemmed from what Venat believed was right at that moment, and right now with Elidibus having done what he did, relayed to us in his dying words, I can only see Venat as the initial aggressor, in taking agency away from the entire world, and making a decision for all of reality that was not and never was hers to make.

Both her and the Convocation with that plan can be simultaneously wrong.