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

Originally Posted by Cleretic

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Then let’s look at the black rose calamity. Where they did exactly that, turning back the clock, willing to sacrifice millions to save us. This is portrayed as a rather heroic act. The interesting anomaly here in both thavnair and garlemald is that the WoL was present for all of this, a more rejoined sundered individual that was there to assist them time and time again. Were it not for this said individual, they all would have perished and given up, as we see in Thavnair, only a small amount of people seem to survive, the skies riddled with blasphemies and that very dark scene showing just how susceptible the sundered were in turning. The same in Garlemald.

Venat attempted to confront a group of people only after the calamity had already struck. I actually remember another poster’s analogy here that seemed to fit quite well. Imagine if we had gone up to that group of panicking people in thavnair, and said stop, you need to learn to suffer. Suffering is natural! You truly think they would have stopped to listen? The fact is whatever her horrible excuses for not intervening beforehand may be, she intervened after the calamity had already struck, when she had knowledge of it beforehand. Just as the ancients are said to be wrong for placing all their beliefs in one “god”(Zodiark), Venat placed all of her beliefs in the WoL. A single person. The move on theme is rather hollow when there is yet hope in saving those who are not truly lost. The WoL didn’t simply move on from the first, they stayed and went through Eden to help it slowly grow back. The WoL didn’t simply move on from Ishgard. He stayed and slowly helped it rebuild itself. The ironworks didn’t simply move on and accept their fate in the world of the calamity. They worked to turn back the clock and give themselves another chance. The Ancients were trying to do no different. They just didn’t conform to Venat’s views, so she played god.