Quote Originally Posted by CrownySuccubus View Post
But being a hypocrite =/= being wrong. If a murderer tells you that murder is a crime, they are objectively correct, even if they're a hypocrite.

The rules of the FFXIV universe as of EW is that "paradise = bad, suffering = good", and Venat "had to" sunder the world in order to beat Meteion. She also knows, via the story's rules about time travel, that if she follows the exact time loop she was warned of, then the people of the future will become armed with the knowledge of what causes the Final Days. She is, again, correct that if she stays the course, that a person capable of defeating Meteion will appear, with her final test being to defeat Hyadaelyn herself.

Again, I don't like that the story bends over backwards to paint this as the objectively correct course to follow, but it does.
The thing is though. she didn’t know if we were capable of it. Not only did she make us trial her, but she also had a backup plan for it in case we failed. She knew 100% it was a gamble, and she gambled the lives of billions all on one person. Even in the games logic though, the ancients did suffer. Venat herself says this. There wasn’t much showing that the ancients couldn’t have combatted Meteion outside of dynamis manipualtion problems, however even the scions and Wol aren’t just completely sundered, they’re 8/14 and 9/14. So clearly it isn’t that drastic of a change. My problem is that she thinks she’s correct when she isn’t. Had she told her people the truth and had hope in them, they perhaps could have come to a solution together. Found an ANSWER if you will. Also….what was stopping her from sundering a select few people or beings? There are just too many variables that paint her as being in the wrong, opposite of what the story depicts her as.

I know you’re just going based off of what the story itself says and not your own feelings, but that’s one of the big problems with EW, it contradicts itself so many times that at this point it’s hard to keep track of what’s what. It’s all just all over the place and we’re expected to just not question it when objectively, venat’s thinking and answers are flawed.