Quote Originally Posted by thegreatonemal View Post
I'm not saying she's trying to save us from dying ever. I'm saying she did what she needed to do to give us a chance to not die today in a sense. With the information she had and her own people's choice to not do anything about the core of the issue(they were far too concerned with getting back to how they were before the Final Days) she took action and sundered the world to give us a chance at living. She herself wasn't even sure it would work which is why 6000 years into her waiting she has the moon which was only supposed to keep Zodiark confined, into a ship capable of traveling to other stars(Given Meteion's actual goal this wouldn't save anyone but she didn't know that at the time) Sundering the world did two things, the first being defeat Zodiark the second to reduce the aether we had so we can interact with Dyamis because that's needed if you are gonna put up any kind of fight.

The choices she made were logical, in the end it was a gamble. We're alive and Meteion isn't so it worked.
The problem with your argument is, she purposefully withheld from them the source of the issue: Meteion. Ancients had no idea what was happening, and thought it was caused by pretty much their version of the Ozone hole: celestial currents being weak at some points.
So far we have every reason to believe they didn't know about the real cause, otherwise Hythlodaeus or Emet-Selch would have mentioned it when we brought them back, or during our encounters. It's not even a matter of proving that it really happened ; they have a much stronger Echo than us, she could share her memories, or even show them Ktisis scene from that place.

So they solved it, during a cataclysm, by extreme measure because time was short: summoning Zodiark to ensure it would fix it.
Said summoning fixed the issue, but damages were already done to the star, so they had to go along with the 2nd summoning to kickstart life back.
A third summoning was envisaged to bring back those who sacrificed themselves, once what they consider lower-value life was common enough, but it would have taken time to reach that point. The morality of such a sacrifice is something nobody will ever agree on, given this thread is already at 38 pages and the one about joining Emet at 120, really.

They had no idea the source of the problem was still out there. What else should they do but fix their star, if they think they solved the issue? For all they knew it might have been a natural event, or linked to that sound in the ground. Venat didn't exactly give them that much time to even try to investigate further now that they were safe and the star fixed, before sundering everything.

She could have warned them at any point. She could have told them that she located the source of the issue in space, and prevented the Final Days from happening by summoning Zodiark early. She could have said from the get-go that it was an issue with the celestial currents, and that they had to be strengthened. It would have, at least, saved the second sacrifice of souls to breathe life back into the land.

Or she could have told the true story to everybody. Hermes little Kairos trick would have amounted to nothing among people to whom Venat could share her own memories through the Echo, people who could confirm it using their Echo in Ktisis so see how events unfolded. Emet would probably even take it personally to have been manipulated that way and dive head first into Dynamis research, especially since his job is handling the Underworld and the souls, and Meteion laser beam is actually able to destroy them, as we reported.
Instead, she let event unfold exactly as we told them, knowing full well how many would die, that her own star would be faced a second time with that cataclysm and with no more chances to

If anything, defeating Zodiark was dangerous in itself: reducing by 14 the strength of the shield protecting your planet against a space laser may not be the best course of action. What if we had changed anything about the timeline and Zodiark was now actually less powerful, and reducing its power would be fatal? She mentions that she has no idea if we'd even go back to our own time or if we already changed things.
Giving people the potential to affect Dynamis even is a good idea, but they can literally create entelechy life forms, since Hermes did it. She didn't have to sunder Ancients to create being attuned to it, but just create familiars with the intend to use and harness it.

So yes, her gamble in the end did pay off. That doesn't make it less of a gamble. That just shows she has very little faith in her own people to actually do what they needed to, without even giving them the chance to rise to the occasion.
She decided to forgo the advices of others and take matter into her own hands, to create a subspecy that may or may not be enough to win that fight, because she perceived a flaw in them. Hermes at least had the taste to present them with a trial when he thought them lacking, instead of killing them outright.


Please note that it's my point of view with the current understanding of Ancient history. It'd probably just take a cutscene of Venat telling them to look at the stars and research Dynamis and them to reply to stop rambling and that they were safe for my opinion to change, but so far, that's how I read the situation.