[SPOILERS] Hermes is a hypocrite.

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Even before the reports he was a bit of a hypocrite. He mourned the loss of the wolves but barely reacted to the victims of the beasts. He hated that beings that were seen as imperfect would be destroyed (and I do feel his view there I really do) yet was fine that monstrous beings got created at all...beings that would surely kill a lot in their time on the planet. Cutting the lifes and potential of their victims short, while they die in absolute pain and terror.

I think his view is more rooted in his displeasure with the Lykaons being made in such a way as to make their death a necessity. The Ancients were prone to creation on a whim, relying on fads or recent developments for inspiration. The result is no small few creations that simply cannot be allowed to exist, through no fault of their own. Hythlodaeus points to the same phenomenon when we encounter the walking shark, and Pandaemonium is the literal embodiment of how that impulse has given rise to cruelty. The fact that Lahabrea created multiple failed beings, whose destinies were to remain locked away and forgotten, for nothing else other than a desire for accomplishment, doesn’t speak well to their priorities.

He hates how the Ancients view their creations but creates Meteion and her sisters soley for his own goals. And he sents them out into the unknown, all on their own, when Meteion cant even stand a simple argument. Never thought how it would feel for them, to fly around the vast space of the universe all on their own. Never really thought about the situation that they could find tragedy. So utterly naive in that regards.

Naive and desperate I think. He did the interplanetary equivalent of a message in a bottle, and boy did that backfire.