Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
Citation needed. You're inferring an intent that isn't stated in the content.

I come back to this:


Period. Anything more than this is conjecture and whataboutism. This is what the story (maybe poorly) tries to communicate.

This is the basis of all the events that led up to and followed the Sundering. It's survival.

The concepts from Buddhism and Utopia serve a philosophical and literary justification for it.

You're all looking at it backwards.
So there is nothing the Ancients could have said or done that would have stopped Venat from murdering all of them? Why did she even confront them in that cutscene then? Why wasn't she shown from a tower of light muttering "I do this for the sake of all life" with a tear running down her face?
They show her passing judgement. She talks about how man must walk.

Did she want to see their faces as she sundered their souls? To pretend like they had a chance to prove they could move forwaed even though she was going to kill them all anyway? How psychotic is this woman?