Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Their souls might be, but not their life, unless you think that being inside Zodiark is living, in which case the Ancients are condemning their own people to what seem like a hellish existence only to then wanting to replace them with others who are not their friends and families.
Okay….then you should agree what Venat did was Genocide. The ancient lives were no more, she even says herself she is the last of her kind. She ripped them apart, and then removed as much of their history as she could and kept it all secret. Even if we don’t count the ancient lives themselves, she introduced much shorter lifespans and sickness to living beings, all those deaths are on her hands, which is indeed genocide. Not to mention her backup plan in case we failed was also allowing the shards to all be killed.