Quote Originally Posted by ZeraSkiratea View Post
It is if not outright stated, at least HEAVIYL implied that they intended to sacrifice the new races and species that sprung forth after the second sacrifice for the third and beyond, not themself(or atleast not themself exclusivly)



Yes, Yes what Venat did was Genocide in some definition i am not here to argue that, noone should deny that.
BUT it is pretty much spelled out(if not at least implied heavily) that, no the ancients would NOT have discoverd a way to fight Meteion, they would not have reached ultima Thule and Confronted the Endisinger. They would NOT have made it this far.
Their reaction to experience true wide scale suffering for the first time(or at least first time in a LONG LONG WHILE) was to run away, to look away and sacrifice more of their number to make the catastrophy as if it never happend.
They tried to escape, heck Emet selch and the unsunderd still tried to escape after they got sunderd, to the point where they planned to sacrifice more lives(lives they found "beneath" them) to bring back those they lost
Let's just say if it was between my loved ones and sentient dogs? Yeah, sorry, those dogs are going into Zodiark's belly. And you know what? I wouldn't even feel bad about it. And you know why they would have had trouble discovering such? Because Venat freaking lied to them by omission! If they had known what they were up against? Ancients are damned resourceful people, they would have found a way.