Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
There's nothing to 'get' since nobody is obligated to agree with the idea that genocide is acceptable when some very contrived conditions arise to conveniently handwave and justify it. We also know that Venat did have alternative options available to her if she truly wished to save the Ancients. She could have simply informed them of what she knew, especially since she previously claimed that she thought that 'nothing was impossible'.

Perhaps if the story really wanted us to pretend as if no other option existed then it should not have shown every other major threat be dismantled through ever escalating plot conveniences.

Attack on Titan handled the controversial subject of genocide in a much more tactful manner as far as I'm concerned. It's a real shame that FFXIV did not when it came to Venat and her actions.
Except Hermes would have to be brought into the fold if all the Convocation were to know - which would work against her because now Hermes could turn against them and they would not have someone who can replace him in the Convocation who also excels in research of outer space & aetherology for future problems (and his expertise was what led them to discover the stagnation of the aether currents & figure out the strategy to forestall the Final Days in the first place). If they let him know before Meteion unleashed the Final Days, he would've turned against them because Venat was supposed to have lost her memories when during their journey in Ktisis Hyperboreia. That would be a worse outcome because now they can't forestall The Final Days at all and the Final Days would've just ended the Ancients then and there after affecting their ability to manipulate aether and creating more blasphemies.

So they had to overcome the Final Days without Venat's direct intervention first for Hermes to accept and judge mankind to be able to pass Meteion's judgement... Except that never happened because the ancients failed and resorted to summoning Zodiark to return to their paradise and wouldn't listen otherwise when Venat tried to get them to accept that immutable truth that suffering exists and their world isn't perfect; even if they go back, pain and despair will still remain (the events of the Endwalker raids prove this to be true too).

This was why the events that led up to our time was pre-destined to happen and Argos ended up being friendly to us. Venat couldn't do anything by the circumstances involving Hermes' resolve and judgement without clueing him in that she remembers and will make the judgement unfair. She could only try to persuade the people. Her attempt was basically always going to fail in our timeline since he was integral to both causing and stopping The Final Days.