Quote Originally Posted by Tehmon View Post
To accept suffering and understand it as an unavoidable part of the laws of nature and existence does not mean humankind shouldn't combat suffering and try to alleviate it.. Although we can make small strides towards a better tomorrow (and often those strides can cause us immense suffering by itself), we cannot mold society and existence into the paradise ancients lived in that rejected suffering, because we are mortal, extremely diverse and weak in magical powers. We do not have the time, unity or powers to accomplish such feats. But there also lies the power of the sundered: resilience and hope in the face of dark, uncertain times.
The Ancients' society did not "reject" suffering. They actively worked to make things better and to eliminate sources of strife where they existed. They still mourned dead loved ones, still had problems (such as exploding volcanoes), and still had need for skilled combatants (every Azem, for instance, is a one-man army). There is basically no difference between the Ancients' world and the world that the Sundered races wish to build. You'll note, for example, that Hermes' biggest complaint about the Ancients was how callously they threw away the lives of concepts and familiars, and yet in the present day, Uldah has fight pits where you slaughter similar creatures for sport. The story makes a big deal about Hythlodaeus transforming a couple of butterflies into robes, but my WOL is a Level 90 Leatherworker who's literally killed thousands of things merely for profit, and uses Relic weapons that required me to repeatedly slaughter every single living thing on various maps.

Again, the story's narrative just does not add up under basic scrutiny, because if Venat did the same thing to the current world that she did to the Ancients, we'd DEFINITELY be trying to stop her with everything we've got. But, because her actions benefit the modern races and only screw over a species nobody remembers anymore, the morality comes across as: "Sucks to be them, but I got mine."