Quote Originally Posted by KariTheFox View Post
Oh, I see the confusion.

I'm not trying to justify Venat's actions here, whether or not she was right or wrong matters very little in this context, I just want people to actually get the facts straight regarding Convocation - they were not democratically chosen and they did in fact make decisions for all of society with zero oversight or accountability to the public at large (there is no mechanism for citizen to remove a convocation member making decisions they disagree with, they would have to either retire or be ejected by the other members. Not democratic.)

Not everything has to lead back to Venat being right or wrong here.
Huh? From what I recall, it's been pointed out many times throughout a variety of threads that the Convocation was not simply going off and doing its own thing with zero oversight and accountability. It wasn't a hive mind, either - since Elidibus' seat was designed to sometimes align with the Convocation on some occasions and against it on others.

There's also the conversation between the player character and Hythlodaeus during the Elpis portion of the story, as seen here:



Note how it is pointed out that countless people from the world over vouched for Emet-Selch, rather than just the Convocation.

Their entire society is also built around research and debate.

I'd also point to this snippet from one of the short stories:



An outright insinuation that debates are held in regards to the suitability of individuals appointed to positions of authority.