Quote Originally Posted by WlyemR View Post
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.
They were traumatized. Expecting traumatized people to be reasonable when you're telling them "You have to leave your loved ones in limbo inside a giant primal and rebuild by hand instead of sacrificing non sapient creations because they may become sapient one day, sorry." is frickin' ridiculous. I for one agree with and support the third sacrifice.