What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[AwesomeJr44]

You are literally describing yourself as worthless and incomplete and only good for being murdered. I don't know how to make it clearer how insane that belief is.

Again, this is you, this is your character, this is literally 99.999999% of the people you meet, this is the entire world that you have presumably sunk hundreds if not thousands of hours into. You are literally describing yourself as worthless and incomplete and only good for being murdered. I don't know how to make it clearer how insane that belief is

You are not your character. You are a human being who lives on or in the very close proximity of the planet Earth in the dimension of reality. You are also not a fractured piece of a larger whole whose existence is mutually exclusive to yours.

[Xirean]

Honestly, a lot of what FirstGear has been saying is quite refreshing. I'm very firmly of the belief that what Venat did was by far the worse move. All actions the Ascians take is directly on her hands and she is complicit in the evil things they do, but that in no way resolves them of guilt for doing those horrible things. Regardless if the sundered started as malformed beings incapable of speech, they grew into fully formed and thinking beings who can build civilizations. Emet even calls their societies civilizations in Ultima Thule. Being able to empathize with Emet/Ascians plight does not mean you have to justify what they are doing and if you do then yeah it's intensely disturbing.

The Ascians destroyed 7 entire planets, several civilizations on The Source and an unknowable amount of civilizations on The Reflections. They also had a habit of finding and taking the reincarnated souls of the sundered Ancients and replacing the entire consciousness/memories of that new person with their long dead friend/coworker. Any one of those actions is enough for me to brand them as villains/monsters alongside Venat. What happened to them was horrible, but does not justify their later actions.

You are also not a fractured piece of a larger whole whose existence is mutually exclusive to yours.

Technically you don't know that for 100% certainty. If you were shown proof beyond any shadow of doubt or scrutiny that you were also a shard of some shattered person, would you then willingly set down your entire existence to become part of a long dead individual? If so, would you be in favor of forcing others to do the same?