Quote Originally Posted by Kyohei View Post
She did not simply genocide them, she made her best to completely erase them from the records as to leave no traces they ever existed in the first place. She even transmitted actually false informations to her chosens like Minfillia and urged them to destroy all ascians. At least that's how it looks now. When they decided a change in ascians story in 3.0 they should've taken this into account.
When looking at the broad story from 2.0 to 6.0, I fail to understand how people can view Venat/Hydaelyn in a good light, much less appreciate her. But then again, in 2.0 I already found it irking when Minfillia was dead set on destroying ascians despite knowing nothing about them.
This. Venat under a modern lens is an extremist and one of the worst kind because she sought to eradicate her race in favor of creating a new one she believed would be superior.

Minfilia was a zealot. I love how they portrayed Hydaelyn telling her to kill herself and Minfilia obliging as her acting of her own free will. It was cultist behavior. Thancred, despite his complete inability to move on from Minfilia, is never once upset with Hydaelyn about this either. Even when he finds out Hydaelyn is a primal in 5.0 he refuses to believe any negative implications that has for Minfilia. The 3.2 artwork also shows Minfilia chained to the Mothercrystal. Minfilia herself says that until she offered herself up as a vessel she was alone in the aetherial sea. I'm always baffled by the ones who say there was no evidence Hydaelyn wasn't good when there's a long history of her being shady even without the Ascian perspective.