Quote Originally Posted by Aline_D View Post
You forgot the MAJOR part where the sundered are more capable of surviving the cataclysms the other civilizations suffered, particularly Utopias like the Ea or the masked people that committed mass suicide due to ennui.

The storyline of Elpis directly shows they were heading straight into this, or killing themselves with how cavalier they were with creating dangerous lifeforms (and this technically still happened since Meteion was the catalyst for their downfall). Hydalin tried to inoculate us against this danger.

The story is not really clear if what she did will work or if it was the best solution, but going back to Amaraut would definitely be a death sentence.
I think this is definitely Venat's motivation for it, but presumably she didn't reveal the fact that she had been informed about the sundering and the future of Etheirys by a time traveler, so what I'm really curious about is the other people who helped to summon Hydaelyn. Of course Venat knew with absolute certainty that this would prevent the star from dying and make its inhabitants more capably of surviving the final days, but did her supporters know what the sundering entailed? Did they know that Venat knew Aumarot wasn't going to survive? Did they know it would work? I'd love to know if there was a story she told to people to justify Hydaelyn's summoning, or if she essentially just asked them to trust her.