Quote Originally Posted by Lauront View Post
I also agree with your take on Venat - my issue is more with a lot of the writing surrounding her, including them making use of time travel yet again right after SHB (in ways that IMO constrained her own agency), and the potential use of this to explain mysteries like why the three unsundered escaped the Sundering. I'm reserving judgement until I see if they have any commentary on it to see what to make of it but overall I wasn't very satisfied with it. I would've liked the ability for a dialogue option to at least have my character distance themselves from her actions and refuse to condone what she did to the ancients. Acknowledge they (the character) benefited as a result but at a terrible cost to the ancients. Something to convey mixed feelings. Overall, I get why people dislike her, but a lot would agree this is due to what they see post-Elpis, so how they wrote it seems to be a culprit - bending over backwards to try paint her in a good light when it's not that simple. I think this poster put it very well:
Agreed. I honestly feel that the use of time travel messed up Venat's characterization and stripped her of a lot of her agency. The implication I got was that she never mentioned Dynamis/Meteion because she couldn't. If she did, the future timeline may have been disrupted. She sundered the source the way she did (knowing full well about the rejoinings) because "gotta preserve WoL's future" rather than have her come to any natural conclusions of her own. It's just not satisfactory and feels contrived.