Quote Originally Posted by GartredZW View Post
There's also the possibility that it's a reincarnation of Venat's soul. Maybe after being reborn in the 2nd (or whichever shard Alexandria is on). Time flows differently, so she could have been reborn immediately after being eaten by Zenos, then released back to the aetherial sea after he died. I like to believe that she manipulated the flow of the aetherial sea just a bit so her soul would sunder itself after dying. It feels like what she would have wanted.
Official word is that Venat used up the last of her soul to fight us, so she's deader than dead. Her story is over.

If anyone wants to argue about whether or not that's a good thing, please, go find the Endwalker story thread, don't derail this one for it. We've been having that argument for two and a half years already.