Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
They did have the drive to do better though, that’s literally their whole thing. You’re acting as if they’re nothing but a hive mind when there’s nothing at all that suggests that. We’re literally shown how much of a debate oriented society they are. That’s exactly what Elidibus left Zodiark to do, mediate both sides of the conflict. Presumably he had no chance to as Venat decided to take agency over the lives of millions if not billions without their consent and shatter them. Imo a better gamble would’ve been….idk….trusting in her own people for once, telling them the truth, and working with them to find a better way. The sundered world had what….6 people that were the only reason they made it out? Every other sundered was either giving in to despair or fighting each other lol.Not to mention how much outside help they needed, i’m not exactly sure the drive to do better was entirely….fair. Also, what injustice of life are you talking about exactly?
Everyone is acting as if Venat went straight for the "Sunder" option. We are shown she didn't. She begged, pleaded, for them to see that there was no going back. The world was irrevocably changed. She did all she could to get them to see that the, as the one Ancient put it, "perfect paradise" they once had was unobtainable. Zodiark's intervention did save them in the short term, but in the long term, there would be an endless, repeated cycle of sacrifice and conflict. The adherents of Zodiark made it clear that they would do whatever it took to restore the old world, up to and including the murder of countless new lives. Everyone who puts the Ancients on a pedestal seem to forget that.