Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Venat calling herself the last of her kind refers to being unsundered, but that doesn't change the fact that she still sees the sundered as continuation of mankind.
What Venat thinks doesn't matter. She's the one who inflicted the violence upon others, and believed it was for the greater good. Emet-Selch obviously does not see it that way. The Ancient souls held on the moon, from all evidence, do not see it that way. "Well, the killer says their victim lives on through their children! They really believe that! So that makes it better!"

Well, that's the point of contention.
Nah. As far as common "apologism" techniques, along with things like the abstraction and usage of symbols like the montage, coding the action of violence behind finicky, cowardly language is also typical. It's not killing, it's cleaning--I mean, uh, "retiring"--I mean, uh, "Sundering".

Actually, that cave showed that they remembered and recorded it. Being wiped from history means no record was kept, not that the people who experienced it first hand had their memories wiped.
Quote Originally Posted by Emet-Selch
And the worst part? No one could remember it. Not really. Just fragments and fleeting memories of an achingly familiar world…
Quote Originally Posted by Elidibus
The origins of the world remain hidden and its inhabitants ignorant of their broken existence, just as You and Your creators desired.
People can, and often do, paint things they saw in fragments of dreams they don't understand. Fragments of memories persist through soul aether, as Amon demonstrated. This does not change that their memory was intentionally wiped by Venat and that her strategy to "remove temptation" was to annihilate the Ancient civilization and all memory of it from history.