Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
Except the WoL doesn't have the power or influence to tell any Ancient what they must do. Sharing information about a timeline's history isn't telling someone what to do, especially when it's already acknowledged that multiple timelines exist.
This doesn't matter in the context of a time loop. It created a paradox wherein the WoL telling Venat about the sundering leads to it happening. Most of us would've loved for Elpis to have ended in a positive outcome AU and probably wouldn't be here complaining had that happened.

Up until the end of Ktisis, none of them really believed the WoL's story. Hythlodaeus was humoring the WoL (one of Azem's crazy pranks, utilizing a familiar). Venat was treating the WoL like some sort of puzzle to solve. Emet was trying to ignore the WoL and still did not believe the story even as Kairos was finishing its countdown.
Well, I can't argue this cause it's your subjective interpretation at best and headcanon at worst.

Venat was setting out to find her own answers when she parted with the WoL. She tells the WoL that their timelines may not converge depending on what choices she ends up making. That she ended up choosing the path she did was none of the WoL's doing. It was her doing.
This argument only works until she commits herself to becoming Hydaelyn and enacting the sundering. Even then it's questionable because her dialog at the end of Ktsis would suggest she has already decided not to do anything differently.

Most important, you need to remember that you are not the WoL. The WoL is a fictitious character written for the purpose of telling a story. We may be experiencing the story through the eyes of that character but we are not them. We do not control the choices that the character makes nor are we responsible for them. That's on the storywriter.

Stop trying to make yourselves out as victims of some dastardly scheme to turn you into a bad guy. It's just a story.
Well, for "just a story" you certainly seem invested in telling people how they should have thought and felt throughout it. Are you one of the writers?