Quote Originally Posted by Aline_D View Post
No, Venat is not assuming, she follows a path she already knows where it leads because *we* told her the entire history. Deviating from that path means risking the entire universe for the small chance that they somehow defeat Meteion in another way, which would just buy a bit of time since their society would die no matter what.
We're getting into Time Paradox territory, which is a core flaw of time travel based stories, but how would venat know the entire history the *first* time she went through this? There had to be a timeline where we didn't interact with Hermes or Venat.