Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
I don’t really understand this.
I don’t see how Hydaelyn is really deemed as good? The story tries its damndest to make it seem that way yes, but given everything we are told and shown, she seems pretty oof to me. Sundered the world, didn’t say anything to anyone, kept secrets told lies etc. Her/Venat could’ve avoided this entire mess and instead chose to keep secrets because what? People needed to learn about suffering? Give me a break lol.
Because frankly I don’t see any other option except what she did.
Per Emet-Selch the Ancients way of solving things wouldn’t have led them to Meteion. We can say he’s wrong on that matter certainly, but I would buy it. We know, roughly, what would happen if they tried to have the Convocation get involved and figure things out to get a third path other than how the Ascians originally did things and the Hydaelyn path. And yes, people did need to learn suffering, that’s… kind of an important part of combating Meteion. Not denying it, not avoiding it, accepting it and moving on still. Which the Ancients couldn’t do. It’s pointed out that Hermes is an anomaly in the Ancient world for turning the Elpis flower purple, so it seems pretty alien to most of them. Maybe for the day to day people it wasn’t, but honestly I get the feeling most of the place was just frankly pretty idyllic.