Sundering stuff established in the Q&A

[Alleluia]

Her emotions don't tie into her actions, so she doesn't have issues doing those things. She sees "feeling bad" as an acceptable price to pay as long as her actions lead to the end she desires. In that regard, no sacrifice of lives is too great as long as mankind, in one form or another, lives on.

Maybe I'm being too vague? Most normal people hesitate to do the sort of drastic actions Venat does--even Hermes has an obvious tipping point if you look at the report scene--with the suffering that ensues. Venat does not. That is callous. It doesn't matter how much she cries prettily as the Sundered stands over the dead body of their mother, because feeling that way will never stay her hand if she feels the cruelty she inflicts has a result that is worth it.

I don't think we have any evidence that Venat didn't hesitate. We are right there with her as she tries to avert the Final Days and avoid having to sunder anyone at all. And we see her reaction when we tell her what happened in the future in the first place, saying she thinks it doesn't sound like something she'd have done b/c she'd have relied on the 14 or whatever she said. Like, she didn't just jump into the sundering plan as a first resort and with no compunctions. She came to see it as something she had to do in order for mankind to ultimately survive an extinction level event.

That's not being callous. You yourself acknowledge she feels sadness for what she introduced to the world. And she cuts herself no slack in our final conversation with her. That's not "having no issues". That's having issues, but still doing it b/c it was the only course that might work, as far as she or any of us know.

"In that regard, no sacrifice of lives is too great as long as mankind, in one form or another, lives on."

I mean, she wasn't the one sacrificing lives. Again, the Ascians weren't forced to do the rejoinings. And she does stop them when she feels she can, like the First. And she opposed the third phase of Zodiark's sacrifices. Venat isn't directly sacrificing lives. And you can argue indirectly she is, by sundering ppl and giving them shorter lifespans, but considering the alternative seems to have ultimately been extinction, I can't really agree. Yes, her actions made life harder. But the alternative, as far as she or we are aware, was life ending all together.