Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
I feel like the foundational lore of the game as a whole was undermined for the sake of this one character and the personification they committed to of her.
Agreed on that exact wording, though perhaps not to the details – in my case, I regard the undermining to be trying that they invented this new narrative of why she caused the Sundering that doesn't line up with anything before it, and cast her in a new and unflattering light in the process.

I have to wonder if the scene at the Mothercrystal was written before all of the middle part of the story was in its current form, and Venat's motives and actions got more morally ambiguous afterwards and the writers sort of lost sight of the ending as they hammered out the middle.

It drifted into my mind last night that somewhere in all the interviews they said that they weren't settled on whether Venat directly became Hydaelyn until some way into the production? If that's correct then the Mothercrystal scene could have been written primarily with Hydaelyn the entity created to act as a mother-goddess, and not directly a continuation of Venat.