Quote Originally Posted by sidurgu-12 View Post
um, thats the fate of people even before the sundering but like the cetra they saw it as the best fate for your soul.
The Ancients had a system in place where, when they felt the time was right, they would willingly give themselves to Etheirys. Hythlodaeus speaks of it at length during the Elpis story segments.

Venat, however, inflicted a non-consensual death upon every last Ancient (barring the three Unsundered) which involved identity death, loss of memories, separation from loved ones and all sorts of unpleasant factors such as a forcibly altered body, lower intelligence, less strength, a shorter lifespan and other elements.

As such, I think it's only fitting that Venat went out the way that she did - burning through the very candle of her life. As much as I think that her overall plan was flawed, the last burst of her energy helped get the player character and the Scions to Ultima Thule and the lingering remnants of the Mothercrystal served to bestow Zenos with the ability to follow in their footsteps.

I'm not saying it isn't a bleak end for her because it very much is, though Endwalker was very much pushed as the conclusion of the Hydaelyn and Zodiark arc and such a conclusion seems fitting to me.