Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Remish]

See, I'm conflicted a little about this.

Clearly some time passed after the events on Elpis. Unfortunately, the game doesn't show us enough. What was that golden rule in live-action/animation? "Show, don't tell?" Yeah, they didn't do enough so we don't have that whole buildup to what Venat does. The final days started but I would hate to think Venat immediately went for blood (especially given the way she describes how much she loves all living things) but at the same time, the custcene makes it look like right there and then, she made up her mind like a homicidal psychopath would when they flip their mental switch.

It's all these questions I want to ask the live letter (or at least I hope people ask) but I have a feeling they'll go unanswered.

Everyone was getting a bit nutty and crazy during the events of the final days. You had Venat who basically took upon the role of a bible prophet. Meanwhile the population was so stuck to their own ideologies to think she was anything more than a tin foiled hat conspiracy theorist. When at the same time they were sacrificing lives to supply their own conspiracy theorist god, Zodiark. Though when the whole planet is plunged into Armageddon, I couldn't reasonably expect anyone to stay mentally sane. It boiled down to that Venat knew the truth but nobody would believe her and so she was forced to commit acts of necessary evils and become the bad guy for the greater good. It's pretty hypocritical that she got to keep her "wings" sure. But she didn't keep her wings because she thought she was superior, she kept them because she was the only one with any knowledge of the future and of Metetion. The fact she gives her life up so quickly the moment we meet her, goes to show how long she has waited for a successor to relieve her of the burden.

At the end of the day, every single person involved handled the entire situation badly but both sides are going to point fingers that the other was eviler than their own beliefs. The difference was that Venat had the foreknowledge of her actions to sunder the planet which had seemingly believable good potential since the us from the future enlightened her to that outcome. She even says in the story that she would never oppose the convocations decisions. Her mind was made up entirely because she believed our story. Which she didn't have much reason to doubt since our soul was the same as her successor's. Whom she already trusted. We're missing a lot of information about what happened exactly leading up to it. Like did she ever even speak to the new Azem (us) about it or left them in the dark while they made their own blind choices. It's hard to say and I'd very much like to know myself. If Venat became some deranged lunatic, it's only because we made her one acting as if we're an Angel coming down from heaven to heavily influence her mind. Azems in general are just extremely chaotic good in nature.