Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
What bothers me the most about this argument is how it's supposed to be in Hydaelyn's favor, but she ends up annihilating any and all human life on Etheriys regardless, so I don't understand how this is meant to aid in justifying her actions in any way.
I wouldn't call it annihilating, as life still exists. If anything, the Convocation's plan is essentially "replace X Ancient souls with X new souls." Basically just replacing life with the same amount, with them only wanting their own lives to matter here. Venat's is essentially "Cleave X souls and world into 14, multiplying them into Y souls," with 14X = Y being the mathematical formula. Does it change the fact it was horrific? Oh hell no, but in the end it made more life than it took.