Quote Originally Posted by Lurina View Post
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.
The focus i had was less on the academic question of whether or not the actions of pre-modern societies can be characterized as genocide, but more that genocide itself is something that societies to do classes of people in a large, collaborative sense, regardless of the era it happens in.

Taking away someone's godhood, or destroying universes to smoosh fractured souls together exist in a completely different realm of abstraction to me.