Quote Originally Posted by JepMZ View Post
I still don't think Sundering is murder. It's never been made a fact in-game or outside the game and would just make Venat's action seem like bad writing. She sundered to save new life, if Sundering was murder, then it doesn't make sense for her to kill everybody including the new children to save the new children. I think you're better off focusing other points because your argument is focused on something that's not even set in the baseline lore
The entire point of The Sundering was to remove the Ancients as a people along with all of their abilities and culture from the face of Etheirys. Literally to change mankind from what it was, to what would possibly pass Hermes's inherently flawed test. That is undeniable. It is very much set in the baseline lore. That's why there's a stink around the act. That's why it's a tragedy that begat even more tragedy. I mean, hell, there's even dead bodies in the metaphor scene where Venat walks down a path of darkness covered in blood.

It is akin to a cloning process that kills the donor. Sure, you get 14 clones out of the process, but you still killed the original. And the clones are all distorted and disfigured as their whole world around them has been. And even then, the first god that was made had to be maintained, and 12 new gods had to be built to shepherd the new people.

So yes, you've encountered bad writing, by your standard.