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[Lauront]

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You're correct that my views are not going to change, especially when you are trying to premise this on something that is not there, i.e. an inherent concern for these sacrifices, as opposed to a concern about the goal that they'd achieve, i.e. restoring their civilisation back to what it was and that, in turn, leading it to the fate of the Plenty. This is putting aside what would happen if her people had even agreed to her requests (reminder based on SHB lore: they were divided over these)? They still could not directly manipulate dynamis, so what was her plan if they agreed? Was she not going to sunder them? Or was she just going to ask them to queue up in an orderly fashion for it?

I am not denying that she cares about an abstraction of "mankind", what I am explicitly not going along with here is that she performed the sundering purely because of a moral disagreement over these sacrifices because of an intrinsic desire to protect them, when absolutely nothing from her faction's own mouths, or the writers', supports this. Once more - the one reference she does make directly to it in the strawman ancient scene is to the outcome of these sacrifices if they went along with them. I am sure she loved the idea of a mankind, one steeled (in her mind) by the acceptance of the "necessity" of suffering. But it makes little difference to how I view what she did to her people.