And that brings me to my favorite part of all of this, the Blood God. What was the Convocation's freaction to learning that their paradise was dying? Sacrifice 50% of the world's REMAINING population to create a god capable of saving the world. At which point they sacrificed another 50%, meaning 75% of the world's population, to bring their world back. Now you might say that it's heroic, and I agree, they did what they needed to. However it's at this point that society itself started rebelling against the Convocation (No Strife Before Sundering BTW.) and the survivors were split between killing the newly born life (Literal Children) to bring back the dead people, or letting the new life live on the planet they love. So let's pretend for a moment the Sundering didn't happen, and all the new life was sacrificed and the Final Days were stopped. Then what? What's to stop another Hermes character from making a sweeping declaration? We know the Ancients all have a habit of doing that. Just kill more people? Where does it stop then? Meteion herself goes full on despair mode because every other civilization in the galaxy reached some form of perfection and decided it was time to call it quits. The Ancients were already against people staying around longer then they needed to when their "Job" was done. So what when the World reached Perfection? They now literally have a simple "Mass Kill" Button in Zodiark. Leaving Elidibus as the last survivor on a Planet devoid of life. And that's why Venat did what she did, and that's what people seem to completely ignore because "Waaaah muh perfect world". Venat didn't sunder the world because of some hatred for Humanity, or OP's weird psychopathic head canon of her. She did it because she took Meteion's words to heart and saw that the Ancients were doomed to destruction no matter if they found another way to stop the Final Days. 3/4