The Venat Cutscene

[Alleo]

I doubt SE would show us those scenes and also be like: Yeah Venat just made it up.
We do know that her group has tried to talk to the others. They have tried to reason with them but got ignored.

I think the only part that is made up is the background. Which could come down to them not wanting to build different sets for that one long cutscene.

[Cleretic]

I think the only part that is made up is the background. Which could come down to them not wanting to build different sets for that one long cutscene.

Yeah, the entire scene prior to The Walk is just in parts of the Amaurot dungeon. Which is pretty much exactly what it's supposed to be like for the first part, so it fits just fine there; for the crowd scene after that, it still works emotionally, and as far as we know might still work physically since it's not super clear how wrecked the world is at that point, but updating it would require an Amaurot state that doesn't exist in the game; it's still wrecked so it can't be Tempest Amaurot, but if you want to have the world be cleaned up a little then you'd likely have to replace the skybox and entirely rework the lighting (some of which might even be baked into the textures for all I know), and probably do some serious work to clean up the surroundings to be not on fire anymore. I can definitely see that being too much work when they have a set that already does most of the job just fine. If an existing set gets you 95% of the way there, why go through all the effort to get that extra 5%?

Incidentally, I know that The Walk actually includes a couple NPCs from the Twin Adder speech's audience waaaaaaaaay back in ARR. I'd be interested to see if the rest of the characters were also from other parts of the game, but all of them are VERY generic so it's hard to tell.