Endwalker Story sucked and it's time to admit it

[Cleretic]

I'd also correct the misinterpretation that Venat had 'no other choice' and that the Sundering was the 'only option available to her'. In Pandaemonium we see yet again that she was a highly respected figure and that it was perfectly possible for the Ancients to show memories to one another in order to share vital information.

I see this argument a lot, as if Venat's whole problem was 'but nobody would believe me'. That wasn't the problem, the problem was that she felt they couldn't handle the truth; that if Hermes knew he'd refuse to help with the necessary defenses (which Hermes himself agrees with), that if someone like Emet knew they'd tell him (which... you know, he would), and that a whole bunch of average citizens would react to that whole 'hey the apocalypse is coming' information poorly (which we know they do).

Ironically, Venat's problem is the exact reverse of struggling to get people to believe her: Venat is so positively regarded, and the Ancients so suited to checking the veracity of an assertion, that anyone she tells would immediately understand the truth and that the truth is terrifying. That game changes once the Convocation are tempered and won't listen even if they are approached (as the poster above me pointed out), but not in a way that makes things any better.

But if this is where this thread is going, I'm gonna go ahead and ollie out, because this mono-argument has been tedious for all but one of the months in which it's been held, and you and yours haven't listened to these points the last seventeen times they were made either.