Personally i’d say Venat and Hermes are just about the same in terms of evil and villain scale. Both led to the extinction of their race. Venat lied and kept secrets, instead of trying to help her race and tell them the truth of everything she kept it all a secret and then tried to play the victim, whilst also trying to paint the ancients in a bad light. I think people take the final days ancients meeting way too wrong. Yes they’re saying they want to return to their paradise, because in comparison to the literal end of the world, any functioning society without that happening would seem like a paradise.

The whole disregard for non-ancient lives means nothing. The sundered are far worse in that regard. They literally hold colosseums for animals and creatures to be slaughtered for entertainment. Sorry but there’s no correlation there at all. But a lot of this is moot because Venat had the knowledge to potentially avert the whole event entirely. They might not have even needed to summon Zodiark, so all of that final days and onwards events is also on her hands. Both her and Hermes are two peas in a pod. Both damned their own society, and some of the planets that died due to Meteion? That blood can also be put on Venat’s hands. Had she told everyone what happened and they stopped Meteion early, numerous planets would have been saved.