Quote Originally Posted by Alenore View Post
I've always felt like it was a weak point in her reasoning.

"I know if I follow this road, I'll destroy the entirety of my civilization, introduce war, illness, death and suffering in everybodies life, that 7 entire worlds will be wiped.

If I do that, there'll be some other form of humanity that hasn't fixed the problem and face imminent extinction. It won't be for thousands of years, while Meteion wipes the universe clean of all life and gets stronger in her corner of the universe.

I really hope I'll have a solution by then..."

And then, her solution is "I know your form of life can simply be erased from existence by Meteion through Dynamis, but please go there and find a way".

As if 12000 years of Ancients studying how to fix the issue and preventing Etheirys from being ruined in the first place wouldn't have granted some results.

It would have been better for the story if we were the only ones remembering what happened, really.
We, the player, don't exist without the Sundering. From a gameplay standpoint, it doesn't make sense to have a plot point for Venat to solve the problem without a Sundering. Doing so would wipe us out, along with everything we've done in the game.

Regardless of the paradox, if she finds a way to stop Meteion and avoid the Sundering, then she also unmakes the future worlds that she already knows will exist, and that we come from. It's easy to say, "that's how it should be", but would we be ok with allowing a Rejoining, regardless of the lives that now live in order to set things right? I don't even know if there IS a "good" decision in this situation. I just took it as Venat accepting that what happened has already happened, even though she is in an earlier point of the timeline, and she works to ensure that *we* continue living in the world as is it is now.