What lore do you ignore?

[Lady_Silvermoon]

In the context of preparing the Scions ahead of their fight, Hydaelyn says "should you lack the strength to best a supreme deity, I cannot allow you to make the journey".

The encyclopedia also refers to the concept used to create Zodiark and Hydaelyn as the "deity concept"


Where I disagree with that poster though is that the way they worded "rise to godhood" and everything else looked to me as if they believe Venat becoming Hydaelyn was purposefully trying to make herself into a god for her own personal gain rather than anything altruistic and that she wanted to become a goddess for its own sake.

There have been posters in the past who believed that Hydaelyn was worshiped despite evidence to the contrary.

Meteion is attempting to prevent all suffering in the universe by stopping the cycle of life and death. Her motives are altruistic. We still punched her in the face though.

I'm not saying Venat made herself into a god for personal gain. I'm saying she's wrong. What she's doing is jaw-droppingly evil. And the most fitting punishment I can imagine for her multitude of crimes against humanity is tossing her back into the aetherial sea to be reborn into the world she made. Not as a supreme deity with a bird's eye view of what she wrought, but as a regular person, helpless and confused as her child dies in her arms of a disease with no cure. If the world she built is so much better, than she should have taken a tour to the facilities.

It's one thing for the horrors of life to happen by happenstance. It's another for them to happen by design. No good, loving being invents cancer. Especially not as a bloody character builder.

ETA: Most the villains in FF14 were well-meaning. Thordan, Athena, the Ascians, all attempting to do what they believed to be the greater good.

They were wrong.

She is wrong.

The difference that disturbs me to no end though is while the game recognizes the others were wrong, it doesn't seem to realize that Venat's fascist agenda was also wrong. When Zenos is drawing in the lifeforce of all those people to give himself the resonance, we get that's wrong. But when Venat sets up entire worlds to be smashed back into the Source so that her super soldier can be born, for some reason people can't follow the exact same logic and realize that's also wrong. She made worlds of people for the purpose of being destroyed to feed our strength, both of character and of spirit.