Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
There is also sufficient textual evidence that supports the opposite. So it would appear we are at a crossroads.
If the writers wanted it to be truly debatable whether Venat was right doing what she did, then the game's story wouldn't have ended while patting her on the back.

WoL would have confronted her instead of becoming buddies. Emet-Selch wouldn't have saved us against Elidibus which ultimately doomed the Ascian plan, nor would he have admitted she was right at the end of game. At least to me, they didn't try to make WoL's or anyone else's support of Hydaelyn subjective.

In my perspective, the writers and lore masters unambiguously supported the idea of Hydaelyn's overall benevolence and that she was a portrayed as a troubled figure in a tight position who did what she thought she had to do and everyone else in-the-know in-game including our own character agreed. Considering she and the rest of the characters came out of the writers' heads, I'd have to say that they know the characters better than we do and that she is treated that way by the game for a reason.