Quote Originally Posted by YianKutku View Post
To be precise, Venat is respected as an ex-member of the Convocation. She is not respected as herself; the respect is all based on her former office. This would imply (and is shown) that Venat, as an ex-member of the Convocation, is not as respected as a current member of the Convocation, which would include Emet-Selch and Fandaniel.

Venat herself was seen as a very strange person, which is only adjacent to respect at best. This is because she refused to "return to the star" after her tenure on the Convocation, and this is against the "traditions" of the Ancients. For another similar case, consider how "respected" Matoya is to the Sharlayan Forum. There's no contempt as such, but rather a sort of avoidance and pretending that she is not relevant to anything, while possibly giving her bureaucratic makework just to fit her into the general org chart; in Venat's case as a sort of surrogate Azem when Azem isn't around, and in Matoya's case as the default caretaker of the Antitower after it was abandoned and superseded by the Aitiascope.
To be even more precise then, she was on friendly terms with Emet-Selch, who like you say, was a pretty influential figure. As was Hythlodaeus, who himself says he would like to look into the matter of his memory erasure. So please try to find some other excuse because this one just isnt working at all. Far too many plotholes so go on, ill be waiting.