Quote Originally Posted by WlyemR View Post
Everyone is acting as if Venat went straight for the "Sunder" option. We are shown she didn't. She begged, pleaded, for them to see that there was no going back. The world was irrevocably changed. She did all she could to get them to see that the, as the one Ancient put it, "perfect paradise" they once had was unobtainable. Zodiark's intervention did save them in the short term, but in the long term, there would be an endless, repeated cycle of sacrifice and conflict. The adherents of Zodiark made it clear that they would do whatever it took to restore the old world, up to and including the murder of countless new lives. Everyone who puts the Ancients on a pedestal seem to forget that.
From what we saw, in her biased recollection of events(which btw, we know from bozja is easily malleable and changed based on someone’s emotions), we see her approaching people during the final days. My point is, she did not tell them BEFORE THE FINAL DAYS, when she had the chance. Where are you getting there would be endless sacrifice? The only sus sacrifice is the 3rd one and we don’t even know what that new life entailed. But we are told after that they would return to their duties as stewards to the star. But if you want to talk about a cycle of sacrifice and conflict, that’s literally the sundered world she created. She created it knowing entire shards would be destroyed and those lives lost. She created it knowing she was introducing death to aging,illness,wars etc. Things that don’t exist in the ancient world. So please if you’re going to mention a cycle of sacrifice and conflict, you had sure as hell include the sundered world under that umbrella.