Quote Originally Posted by Necrotica View Post
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?
Poor story telling, that scene isn't literal. She didn't sunder the world on a whim after a conversation with half a dozen snivelling scared old men. We know she had at least 12 other companions, and it certainly took more than raising her sword in the air to sunder an entire world into 14 reflections.
The whole scene is metaphorical, due to time constraints because they crammed two expansions worth of story into one.