*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[Jandor]

Omnicide. Wiping out a single demographic is genocide. Venat wiped out all of them. Language used is but a small difference, but it's one I feel worthy of noting. Really drives home the gravity of the act far more so than calling it mere genocide.

Omnicide is the destruction of all life, or all human life, depending on context.

Life still exists and humanity still exists, the sundered are still human beings, even if they are individually weaker than the Ancients.

[redheadturk]

How is it Omnicide? Life still exists, mankind still exists for that matter. The sundered are still mankind, even if they are individually less powerful than the Ancients.

The complete elimination of their culture? That counts as omnicide.

[Jandor]

The complete elimination of their culture? That counts as omnicide.

Omnicide has a pretty binary definition. Are all humans dead? If they're not, it's not omnicide.

[redheadturk]

Omnicide has a pretty binary definition. Are all humans dead? If they're not, it's not omnicide.

They as a people no longer existed. Changed or not, they did not exist in the form they once did. The Ancients no longer existed after Venat's actions, and now that we have killed the last three Unsundered they never will again.

[Jandor]

They as a people no longer existed. Changed or not, they did not exist in the form they once did. The Ancients no longer existed after Venat's actions, and now that we have killed the last three Unsundered they never will again.

Wiping out a people is genocide. Omnicide is all the people.

Seriously, have we gone over this topic so much that the term genocide has lost its edge?