Quote Originally Posted by SpectrePhantasia View Post
I respect that desire to not have the "God" of a particular world be wrong or have some fundamental misunderstanding about the people they watch over, at least once. I will agree that JRPG's love to pull that "Man should govern their own fate" stuff, and while I personally enjoy it a good deal, (call it the Persona fan in me) I can see how that would try someone's patience in repeated occurrences. However, I feel that any hope of that being a reasonable conclusion to come to was removed in Shadowbringers, when we learn that Hydaelyn is a primal; not at god. Venat is just another person, no more predisposed to making the "right" choice than anyone else.
Call it the optimist in me wanting to accept the story on the terms the writers wanted. As I've mentioned in the past, I liked Venat's character and charisma and found her standpoint interesting, but that's within the story's moral framework. Looking at the story from the lens of the real world, I'd slap her and say "What the fuck is wrong with you!?".

Also, I've mentioned before that I'm a skeptic, so I don't inherently believe in higher powers and whatnot, but I do find the idea fascinating. I don't like "Only man has the right to create destiny" stories because I don't deify humankind any more than fictitious beings. So again, for EW, I was able to (mostly) turn off my brain and just accept that the story portrayed Venat as "correctly knowing better".