Quote Originally Posted by PeaTearGriffin View Post
Good, so you people understand that the game presents a retcon to us with this cutscene. A retcon is defined as: "a piece of new information that imposes a different interpretation on previously described events."

It's crazy the amount of mental gymnastics some of you guys are using just to avoid admitting that the story writers messed up by creating a retcon.
It's not a retcon. A retcon means that previous events would be wrong, and they're not. The scene is never presented as "this is how it actually went down". It's just meant to be a cinematic narration by Venat of the Final Days and explaining a new additional reasoning for the Sundering. The scene itself isn't similar to anything we've had before or since so I won't deny that it's jarring, but at this point after it's been explained to you, you're just doubling-down on being wrong in order to keep pushing a conspiracy theory.

If you honestly believe that a scene where Hytholdeus and a man-eating monster calmly pass each other in the street is meant to be taken as literal events, then there's no hope for you.