Tales from the Dawn

[Lurina]

It confirmed my suspicions since ShB that Amaurotine society wouldn't be able to move forward after creating their own god, and that it factored into Venat's decisions.

That's another thing. The story tells us the reasoning of Venat's faction in abstract, but it still keeps the details of the scenario super vague. Why was it a sure thing they'd never move forward? It makes it come across as mass-murder based on a vibe. Why not elaborate a bit?

I can understand why you'd want to keep it simple in the MSQ, but this story would have been a great chance to at least show-not-tell the basis for the faction's beliefs and expand on the scenario given at the end of Elpis. Were the sacrifices sapient beings? Or if they weren't, maybe the Amaurotines haste in trying to bring back their old world would have prematurely killed the planet again? Or was Zodiark not actually able to bring the dead back and would have just needed more and more sacrifices forever? Or maybe Zodiark had tempered the populations slightly and made future change literally impossible? Give us something. It can't have been just about dynamis stuff or whatever, because her followers didn't even know about Meteion, apparently.

Since they're not tonally pivoting to make Venat come across as morally grey (or at least, not here), it would be so easy to elaborate slightly and have her come across more like the heroic figure they apparently intend instead, but they're just not doing it. I don't get it!