Quote Originally Posted by Nilroreo View Post
Hydaelyn, a character who the devs have gone on record stressing is not supposed to be evil, knowingly orchestrated events that resulted in 7 planets worth of lives being destroyed.
This is what's so baffling to me. Venat on paper reads as an antagonist, quite possibly the biggest one in the game as the effects of the sundering overshadow those of the Final Days quite substantially with far lasting consequences. The only thing that makes her 'not a bad guy' is the gross amount of gaslighting the game does. It doesn't matter if her intentions were good and not out of malice, there have been plenty of well-intentioned antagonists who are still antagonists. However, write the WoL and Scions as loving her? Write Emet, a fan favorite and quite possibly the person she screwed over the most, to commend her at the end? Suddenly all is forgiven, apparently. Ignoring the fact that Venat wouldn't have hesitated to sunder the WoL if she had the power and thought it would achieve her goal. She had a very abstract 'love of life' and no loyalty to anyone or anything but her ideals. I guarantee the Scions wouldn't have been okay with it, which makes their acceptance of her actions even more galling due to how grossly self-serving and hypocritical it is.