Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
Honestly, I'm just really disappointed that they didn't make a bigger deal about the sacrifices themselves and rather it was the ideology behind it that was opposed.

From Shadowbringers, I had been wondering what in the world could've been so important about those new lives as to warrant effectively destroying the world for their sake (Nevermind that they would've logically suffered as well)...but then that ended up just feeling like a strawman.

Even just a little line or scene showing that those lives were sentient beings with their own cultures, hopes and dreams that would've been snuffed out had the Convocation gone through with their plan (As a precursor to what the Ascians would later go on to do) would've done a world for making Venat and her followers more sympathetic to me.
To me when you look at the few times they mention those souls there must have been something different as even fake Hythlodaeus hints that they were different. Why would you replace the first Sacrifice with more Ancient souls just to get Ancient souls out? Also why are those who were part of the 2nd one seemingly not as important? You could say well the 1st had a lot of people who were important to the Convocation or your average person. Yet why would that argument not be able to be made for the 2nd? Or if the new life was souls equal to an Ancient's just not exactly the same then again why would they need to do a third? The 2nd and the 3rd smell a lot of impatience. Even though we don't know and most likely will never know more about the new life it could have been anything from plant and animal life. Or since we know the Meteia were already causing other Planetary Life Streams to shut down could be souls from other planets. If we are to believe souls do their best to find the nearest Lifestream.