Sundering stuff established in the Q&A

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Regardless, this means she had committed to "our" timeline

It also doesn't change the fact that she had no assurances the WoL would be successful. She gambled trillions of lives on a 1-2 day meeting, which is Disney levels of love at first sight leads to happily ever after type nonsense.

If they're standing on the hill that Venat is no different than the other Ancients who judged the world by their own standards and let lives fall by the wayside to do it, akin to Hermes and Emet, it certainly was not portrayed as such by the MSQ or anything in it. Someone complicit in this much tragedy should not ever be portrayed as a hero, and it is undeniable that is how she is seen.

Antagonists who've done less were raked over the coals, but Venat is celebrated. I'll never understand it. I can only assume the backlash from Japanese players was worse than it was here because Reddit and western streamers/YouTubers have done nothing but gush about EW. I've only see dissent here, on the official forums, which Yoshi-P never cites as one of the places he goes for game feedback (oddly).

We’re still back at where we were before, left wondering what would have actually happened had she told the truth.

Sadly. Given how much the unsundered changed after the sundering the excuse that their people couldn't change (also ignoring those who were on Venat's side) isn't accurate, it's just the Zodiark Cultist Strawmen group at the end of Elpis all over again. Though, Yoshi-P was explicit that's what Venat thought and clearly she did not have a favorable opinion of her own people.