Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
If they hadn't tried to cram everything into one expansion so they could brush the whole story to the side, they could have built up Venat as a likeable character with some actual plot reasons as to why a Sundering was the only option.

But no, they didn't and the result was pure nonsense that didn't connect at all. The comic is nice, but the best thing SE could have done was not rushed the conclusion to a decade worth of story build up.
I think they were always going to struggle with trying to pass off the deliberate genocide of an entire group of innocents as a good and necessary thing. At best, having the Sundering be a tragic accident and unintended consequence would have worked decently well - but there's no real consistency when it comes to the story.

If anyone was attempting to wipe out the Scions or a major allied City State they would be considered an outright villain regardless of how sympathetic their motives happened to be. Nor would the protagonists be expected to just roll over, die and accept it. Yet instead of applying that same stance to everyone else, we instead get some desperate attempt to pretend as if sometimes genocide is fine and perfectly acceptable.

I like consistency and if we're going to be forced to sit through lengthy foppish speeches about 'forging ahead' and a 'better tomorrow' then the least the game could do is actually operate within its supposed established moral framework across the board.