Quote Originally Posted by Absimiliard View Post
It isn't necessarily Venat that's the problem to most of the character's detractors. Omnicide is a very common trope in video games, after all. The real issue is a combination of the narrative treating the act far too lightly and the characters within said narrative being perfectly fine with all of it. What we, the players, were expected to feel about that character does not, in the opinion of many, line up with what we were shown. The omnicide, all the deceptions, withholding so much key information from the Convocation, not bothering to tell the people she sacrificed to become Hydaelyn their souls would be consumed, etc. would all be considered highly dubious actions individually, and she was written to have done all these things and more.

Venat is fine. The fact the character's rather horrendous actions are just hand waved... well, that's questionable at best. To top it off, there's a portion of the player-base that just wants to outright deny the character as having committed any wrongdoing. As you might imagine, these rather outspoken individuals have managed to rather thoroughly stoke the ire people that aren't so keen on calling Venat a hero. Tends to make the debates devolve into pointless arguments and wildly unfounded suppositions.
Again where are the direct sources of her actually letting her own followers be out of the loop for the summoning. Wouldnt the Ancients already know that fact when the same wanted to consume souls to summon Zodiark? Also the fact that she even had a group of her own kinda goes against the idea that she never told anybody the truth of what happened.

Im not trying to argue that Venat was this perfect angel of a character; she clearly wasnt and the story itself already shows you to not be some mindless worshipper befitting of primals indoctrination. But the things that people are arguing here about her feels like a long contrived stretch based on what was narratively presented. Its akin to the whole "ARR Gaius was right" debate where people also try to weirdly stretch that he was justified in his actions. People read shit in this game a bit too much