Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
I don’t think it matters and I’m not sure why you’re trying to stir the pot. As a leathercrafter, you can make pants out of a bunch of sheep you personally slaughtered.

For that same reason, I didn’t see the killing of butterflies to make a cloak being framed as “evil”, it’s just that they were pretty little things fluttering around and the idea of harvesting them for their aether to make clothes wasn’t something our character had any sort of context for. Typically the things we’re told to put down are ugly, dangerous beasts and this whole scene was probably created to show us that the frame of mind of the Ancients is that they’re more analytical and pragmatic and that set the stage for Hermes.

The whole thing with the Ancient creations being “bad” is because some would get souls and some of the Ancients were just making things that they felt like and killing them and starting over if there were flaws and only cared about perfection. Hermes got upset at that and like all fictional worlds, no one talks to each other about things and there are no therapists, so he decided to end the world.

I felt bad for the familiars that got sent to the Void, but we also witnessed them being formed into existence out of nothingness and they have no actual souls. It’s not like Y’shtola dismisses them as simple tools either, she softly says “rest now, little ones”, as she disperses their aether.
Trying to stir the pot? So what i’m not allowed to ask questions now? Way to try and gatekeep conversation Mikko, extremely disappointing.Just because it doesn’t matter to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter to others. It matters to me because it affects the story being told, if something is painted as bad or wrong but then it’s depicted that it’s okay for the main cast to do it, that’s a contradiction and a double standard that affects the story for some people, myself included. So i’d really rather you not try and denote my post to “why does it matter” or “attempting to stir the pot.” If it bothers you ignore the thread. I’m tired of you coming into my threads just to be passive aggressive and try and halt my ideas. As for yshtola’s comment, i don’t see how that’s any different from the literal funeral rites the ancients held for unmade creations.


The animal thing was just one example, but there’s numerous other ones, mainly revolved around the whole “move on” theme and aspect of the story. How do we know the familiars we summon don’t get souls? Since it’s the planet/lifestream that dictates that. Look at Alpha in the omega questline for example. Any of the creations we summon could gain a soul and we may not even know it, and kill them regardless. Look at the eden primals. Summoned purely so we could kill them.