In regards to something involving the main cast

[Alleo]

Now i’m curious, why is this the case, and why is our character shown to be so adamant and shocked over this, and people are quick to bash the Ancients for being “reckless” with creations etc, meanwhile in this very patch Yshtola summons some familiars to send to the void that will be killed. Yet afaik our character says nothing, expresses no shock or concern. Is this yet another example of it’s okay when “we” do it but not anyone else? What does everyone else thing about this?

We may be shocked by the butterflies because unlike us who need to kill other creatues to get something to eat and clothes the ancients should be able to create them out of thin air. I mean we have a couple of fates in this region showing us exactly that. Also the other option was to ask, if its okay to just take these out because we are just visitors in this facility. Which imo makes sense to ask.

So bascially we have the Ancients on one side that do like to create and destroy living beings on a whim without the need to do that. While on the other side we have us split beings that are so weak in aether manipulation that we have to take our ressources from the beasts and animals by killing them. At the same time we are part of that circle of life because unlike the godlike ancients we are in danger of being eaten too.

About Ysthola and her familiars: I think the biggest difference is that the Ancients were able to create beings that either already got a soul or that might get one in later generations. Yet a lot of them still threated those beings like magical constructs. As far as we know Ystholas creations have no souls. We dont even know if they have any sort of real emotions. Bascially they are more like carbuncles and other summoned things. For me they are more like robots while the beings the ancient created were alive and had emotions. So yes there is imo a difference between that.
(And even though they are not alive, Ysthola still talked kindly to them afterwards and showed great care for them. She did not need to touch and speak to them like that, she could have just vanished them)