Tales from the Dawn #3: "A Question of Life" (Hermes)

[Lurina]

I had a whole reply typed out and then lost it, but in short I think genocide comparisons are always going to falls short for me because genocide is a modern, industrialized act of violence commited by nation states against peoples, not acts of individualized supermurder.

I have trouble viewing either the sundering or the rejoinings as genocidal for the same reason - that they are so abstracted from anything that could ever happen in real life, and in no way resemble any kind of real life genocide. (But I can see the actions of say, Garlemald, the Allagan Empire or Limsa Lominsa as genocidal,)

Genocide is by no means modern. The Achaemenid Empire was institutionally exterminating conquered cultures when western civilization was nothing but a glint in Alexander the Great's eye.

That being said, even if you don't want to call it that, fantastical supermurder is still murder. It's violent, and I don't think you should gloss over it with flourishes of language.