On Venat's Role in the Story

[KageTokage]

I was under the impression that the Ancients who were consumed by despair were the ones whose magicks went out of control and started to spawn beasts.

Though in essence, that would basically mean the ones who retained their composure to go through with summoning Zodiark had already overcome despair in their own way by not allowing disaster on a scale unlike anything they had ever experienced to rob them of reason and their will to live.

In that respect, they had already passed one aspect of Hermes' test, though they had "failed" the other aspect of valuing life in that they were prepared to sacrifice other lives to free the souls of those trapped in Zodiark...though that was never really a reasonable expectation in the first place considering that their entire way of life prior had viewed their creations as expendable if worst came to worst; expecting them to suddenly change their views under desperate circumstances even less so.

I can't imagine that if sundered folk were to be placed into similar circumstances where they could sacrifice "lesser" lives like beasts and plants to revive their loved ones lost to the second Final Days that they wouldn't do the same.