Quote Originally Posted by Lauront View Post
They're not merely split, no. It altered them along a number of traits, not limited to: ability to use creation magicks, aetheric density, physical dimensions, susceptibility to illness, and most importantly, lifespans. The latter point alone is enough to constitute killing, because the resulting beings went from ancients with lifespans probably in the thousands of years to beings with lifespans of, at the very most, a few hundred years, and for most races, much less than this. The evolution of the sundered races of man is directly attributed to the Sundering. If you inflicted a poison or magic on a being that drastically cut its lifespan, I fail to see how that is not killing. What emerged are very different beings, at the expense of those sundered.

On the last point, it's not an either/or. Those souls inside Zodiark forming him had to fuel him in the absence of alternative methods to do so and volunteered to do it. Venat's plan would not alter that. Her actions targeted the surviving ancients who were not inside him.
Understandable in that sense. Though without knowing more and given the story we were given, idk what's worse: being sundered and having your soul make it back to the aetherical sea piece by piece(if that's how it happens), or being trapped in Zodiark till he was defeated and you were set free(which again is my assumption).