Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
To be fair, I think it's completely understandable for some people to read into Venat's duel in such a manner. She's clearly been painted as a very unwell and unstable character elsewhere in the story.

Let's not forget that we're talking about a character who decided to stand by and allow for the Final Days to happen despite having information that could have helped prevent or at least mitigate the event itself. In addition, Venat then decided to inflict genocide upon every man, woman and child amongst the Ancients - essentially wiping out her own people and civilisation. To say nothing of then declaring herself to be a 'supreme deity' and judging herself to be the only individual worthy of bearing wings.

One could also suggest that she was always possessed by a smug sense of self importance, especially since the way in which she describes her adventuring is very different to Emet-Selch's much more humble stance.
She buys right into the notion of herself as some manner of messianic figure, after all.