Quote Originally Posted by Tama-Kanzashi View Post
Of course she is evil. You can't look at a character killing a whole race of people and then say "oh that wasn't evil because she meant well". No matter how much media likes to push the approach of "the end justifies the means", no, it doesn't. It absolutely doesn't.

Otherwise that guy pushing the button in The Dead Ends to kill everyone on his planet also isn't evil because he meant well and ended the war. Sure he meant well, but it's still evil. And unlike Hydaelyn he still has his "I...killed everyone..." moment. How mysterious.

And even if you think murder isn't evil enough, she is pretty darn evil on a personal scale too. Sure, the WoL has devolved into a pretty mindless muppet at this point, but it's important to point out that we only got to that point because she manipulated, lied and tampered with them from the very start. But if that still isn't evil enough, how about deleting every trace of her own people's culture from the face of the planet? Making a flesh puppet (forum alt) to talk through by killing a girl and then discarding her once she is done? How about not being interested in all the shards and what happens to them unless provoked into action?
How about her own servants on the moon? The Watcher doesn't have memories of his past life as she intentionally didn't give him any, basically being a glorified familiar. And the loporrits, even if the are annoying as heck, never got any communication from her for 12k years while she was apparently able to talk to Sharlayan. Didn't even send them a message. I guess it was funnier to watch their rabbit hearts explode when they realized they built everything wrong.

But I guess that's all benevolent gentleness. After all she speaks with a soft and calm voice.
I was under the impression according to Shadowbringers and Emet-Selch's explanation is that people weren't killed when the sundering happened, just their souls were split. All the current shards that happened right after had all the remaining people were identical in appearance/intelligence/ect (when he demonstrated on Ryne) but had forgotten about being long lived beings or about their past and whatnot and then they just died due to the normal things like happenings of war, sickness or old age. I don't see how that is "killing everyone."

What Venat did was the same exact thing as what God did when he cast Adam and Eve out of paradise for not learning and heeding His lessons. She tried reasoning with them and making them learn, they refused, so they were cast out of paradise (Unsundered world). Minfilia is akin to what happened to Jesus. God also flooded the entire world in what He deemed to be a greater good for the world. Yet I don't see people ranting about how God is evil for doing that.