Sundering stuff established in the Q&A

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I don’t think this logically follows. So, they decide to move on from the cataclysmic event by not rebuilding and deciding to voluntarily tear themselves into smaller pieces? Why would they do that for absolutely no reason?

They had reason to though. To accept Suffering as an inevitable and necessary part of defeating Meteion would mean ia profound change, and yet more would be required of the Ancients to fully face Meteion. I’m not saying they would have to Sunder everything like what happened, but some form of change in the same vein would be required. They need to both lessen aetheric density and face mortality, and thus a lesser Sundering seems logical, albeit more controlled and structured I’m sure.

Did you watch the Q&A?

The way it was largely put forward was that yeah, she was crossing her fingers to spare Emet, but didn't have a lot of control over it, so she just tried her best to let Emet live and by chance he happened to also save Elid and Laha. The way I put it when trying to describe it, she couldn't actively choose for Emet to survive, but could deliberately avoid making absolute sure he didn't, so she left an opening and gambled on him being smart enough to dodge. Which he did, and then happened to crack out a clutch Rescue on both of the others.

Which is only really new information logistically; we already knew Venat planned for Emet to live from the fact that Emet himself deduced that and Emet can generally be trusted to be right about this stuff. We just didn't know how she did it.

Watching that clip I think my whole city heard someone scream “WHY?”

Not out of anger or frustration but an overwhelming need for a follow up question. Why do that? Venat had to have a reason, and it being an attempt to maintain the timeline doesn’t quite fit given it was done that way to let Emet specifically escape (the other two being unplanned it sounds to me). So why?