On Venat's Role in the Story

[Kozh]

The Lykaons had souls, and the only one who wept for them was Hermes.

Just because I don't weep for every mice I killed, doesn't mean I don't care about them. The fact they have funeral ritual and feels sad about the creatures passing told us enough.

There is no basis that the Ancients were motivated by belief that they needed to be their when the calamity returns. The only ones who have stated that [I]were the ones who Sundered the world. There's zero indication that they were acting out of anything but a desire to see their brethren returned.

Yes there is? Hythlodaeus dialogue after that, venat's faction dialogue on anamnesis anyder, the short story from tales of the shadows. They both explicitly said that they're uncertain and worried about the future of the star, thus they decided to bring back their brethren to resume stewardship. Yes, they may want for their loved ones to return because they're sad, but it's not the whole purpose either.

I disagree. Now that they want for nothing, the former Sundered would do exactly as the Ancients did.

So Venat only delay the inevitable?

So you'd kill an innocent just to save one other? Why does one get to live while the other doesn't?

Because that one live is someone I deeply cherished and loved, while the other is a stranger.

I'm saying if you truly it right for one to do as you say, then why aren't you actively helping improve the world by saving those five?

Because none of this is real?? This is just a hypothetical question you asked after all??? And what does saving five people have to do with improving the world? What's the correlation??

She did the right thing.

By whose perspective? Certainly not from her victims. Even from the sundered it's a grey area.