Let's play a game: Save the Ancients!

[Cleretic]

But you're merely assuming here that most Ancients could single-handedly end the world in a way their superiors could not contain,

One of them did, though.

Even if you think Hermes has some kind of elite status that makes him uniquely capable that few shared (which I don't, nothing in the game actually says it, we only get notably underpowered people singled out), we're still looking at a world where one of those few people can just cause an apocalypse by themselves, accidentally. And their 'superiors' only solved it by sacrificing half the planet, which I would at best call a pyrrhic victory. So yes, I think it's valid to see the Ancients as very dangerous people; they themselves know that, it's why creation magic has so many checks and balances.


Also, 'the loporrits eventually made the Ragnarok' doesn't actually mean 'the Ancients could've made the Ragnarok no problem'. I read them as like Deep Thought from Hitchhiker's Guide: Venat and Co knew this was needed, but couldn't do it themselves, so they made people to run those numbers and do that work.