On Venat's Role in the Story

[Rulakir]

You got that line. It was in the very first scene with Venat.

Whatever dialog options I had before Elpis certainly don't count and I don't know why you'd think they would. The moment at which Venat started spouting off every excuse in the book as to why she wasn't going to do anything differently despite everything I'd told her is when I needed a line about it. My character has been in situations before where they acted antithetical to me, but nothing has ever come close to being as egregious as post-Elpis. The dialog options I do get from that point forward are not only not confrontational, they're thankful to her for everything she's done.

You know what could've fixed this? Alternate timelines. I maintain that choosing a closed time loop is the single worst decision the writers made in all of EW.

I mean, putting aside that whole 'Hermes himself made the decision, so maybe respect he had good reasons', remember that he's the one that comes up with the initial Zodiark plan (opinions on the other sacrifices are unknown). Without him, there is no plan, because nobody knows more about dynamis than him, and simply 'questioning him' about the concept would probably take a LONG time and have high chances of missing important facts. Making another expert on dynamis is hard; best just try not to break the one we've got instead.

I'm still confused as to how/why Hermes was needed when by that point we had all of the pertinent information to share ourselves. His expertise would've only been helpful for Meteion, which was obviously problematic.