Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[Ultran]

They always tried to present her and the Endless as a threat to every shard, yet the only time we see them invading they are defeated within less then an hour after one nation preparing itself for maybe a week? I always found it very weird that they were shown as being so weak and incapable of conquering anything substancial. If they had opened a connection to the First or the 13th, the Voidsent or the remaining Sineaters might have eaten them all.

I have less an issue that we had to resort to genocide to stop her but if we have to pull that ultimate card then maybe present the enemy as something competent and really threatening, not someone who failed 10 minutes ago to invade a barely prepared single nation. With the Ascian we knew they had to be stopped at all cost. With Meteion we knew we had to stop her, no matter what, but for the Endless we could not find some minutes to even think about an alternativ? The WoL forgave Meteion and tried to free her from her evil, although she had murdered whole planets worth of people. After she "helped" whole planets to pick the path of despair? As far as we as the WoL is concerned, the only dangerous true Endless we ever encountered is Cahciua.

Although it would be quite the plottwist if it is revealed that she was the crazy one that just wanted to commit suicide, but did not want to die alone.

[TheMightyMollusk]

They always tried to present her and the Endless as a threat to every shard, yet the only time we see them invading they are defeated within less then an hour after one nation preparing itself for maybe a week? I always found it very weird that they were shown as being so weak and incapable of conquering anything substancial. If they had opened a connection to the First or the 13th, the Voidsent or the remaining Sineaters might have eaten them all.

That was Zoraal Ja, who had no real concept of tactics beyond overwhelming numbers. Which didn't mean squat against a great wyrm. (I think we also all tend to forget just how powerful a great wyrm really is against people who haven't, yknow, killed two or three of them.) Once they lost the advantage of a surprise attack, they had no real advantage, so they weren't really any better than regular troops.

Meanwhile, Sphene planned to skip the invasion and go straight for the dimensional merge. It's like comparing a gang of thugs to just dropping a bomb.