Thread: The Reasoning behind The Sundering? (*6.0 Endwalker Spoilers*)

Originally Posted by Ayche

I don't know what moral calculus is being applied here, but I do not know how the death of the whole natural world is somehow equalized to the demotion of few god-wizards. God-Wizards, who on the record, were responsible for their own doom. So when one god-wizard is turned into 13 farmers and fishers, and natural order gets to, you know, not get disintegrated, I fail to see the math here.

Guess it wasn't then... a shame. The best and most generous reading on the sundering is that Venat wiped out a civilization AND the natural order of the now restored planet. She didn't literally kill the individuals, just took their soul, sliced it up into 14 pieces and created 14 new individuals who had a soul similar to the original, but none of the memories. Oh and she also shortened their lifespans by a good amount. Even by the games own lore standards, that is as close as you can get to the process of death without calling it such. There are differences, but none that really affects the moral dilemma. She herself admits her deeds as terrible.

She almost literally did what the Ancients planned to, but in the reverse. She sacrificed her own people for the life that would grow in their wake and the potential she saw in that.