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Did you actually pay any attention to the plot? If she hadn't created hydaelyn then the world would have been completely fucked by zodiark. The sundering was not perfect and indeed lead to much suffering, but it was at the time a means of combating zodiark. She literally opposed the members of the convocation who wanted to sacrifice yet another half of the remaining population of Etheirys for Christ's sake! If you're gonna pinpoint someone as the root cause of all this suffering, then blame that twat Hermes. He created Meteion which led to the creation of Zodiark in the first place! At least Venat was on the team of trying to fix all this! Blaming Venat for all this suffering is kind of like blaming the surgeon who takes your leg off to save your life.

@@Hirotoro4692 You seem to be mistaken on several counts. For one, Zodiark was *not* damaging the planet. The game makes this clear. Both Zodiark and Hydaelyn could exist without draining the planet of ambient aether. The first sacrifice created Zodiark and allowed him to shield the planet, while the second gave him the strength to restore the world to habitability and feed it with life without having to drop the shield. Zodiark also had no intention of harming or controlling *anyone,* having been created as an entire benevolent force. We have confirmation that even those "tempered" by him in fact retained their wills entirely. They were free to do as they pleased regardless. The planned third sacrifice would not have consisted of the ancients. They intended to give the life created by Zodiark time to populate, at which point they would sacrifice a portion of *those* lives, i.e. non-sapient organisms, so as to free the souls of their loved ones from within Zodiark without having to sacrifice the world to do so. This is stated in-game and further confirmed by both developer statements and peripheral materials. Secondly, the Sundering is a lot worse than what was presented in-game. As per NieR Re[in]carnation (note: the crossover *is* considered canon by all parties involved in its creation), the end result of the Sundering was *tremendous* suffering. People lost even the ability to speak, reduced only to moaning in agony as their malformed vessels struggled to find stability. Their souls were equally decimated. In time they recovered, but they as people would forever more be broken. They can never be or feel whole again, and they're doomed to repeat the cycle of war, violence, and hatred for all eternity. The capacity for growing beyond these vile behaviors was stripped away by the Sundering, as per Venat's wishes. As a third point, I might note the Ancients *did* in fact have the capability of combating Meteion. This was finally confirmed in writing. They even had near-finished design for a spaceship that would've been a lot faster than the Ragnarok. What they lacked was knowledge of their true enemy, which we've been told Venat at no point made any effort to share with the Convocation. Quite the contrary, in fact; she knowingly and intentionally withheld that all-too-important information from her people She argued against their course without ever providing them with the only alternative that would truly have worked. Finally we come to Venat herself. She decided *she* didn't like the direction her people were going and resolved to do something about it. She accomplished this through one of the only successful acts of omnicide ever presented in media. Rather than an even divide as most people think, the Sundering was actually closer to being torn apart and having the matter and aether (and spiritual aether - an important distinction, because it is separate from physical aether) that once comprised your being forced back together in unnatural ways to create some semblance of the being you were before, just without any trace of the original personality, knowledge, abilities, etc. Victims of the Sundering were effectively terminated and used to *build* their replacements. So yeah, Venat carries a big chunk of blame here. Hermes created Meteion, but Venat made everything a thousand times worse by refusing to divulge relevant information. She then judged her people based on the actions they took while in a state of utter desperation. *Everyone* goes into self-preservation mode when they're that desperate. That's literally hardwired into the brain. The Ancients were no different. They were people, as we are. Just much longer lived and far more powerful. They felt as we feel, and they grieved as we grieve. In terms of emotional content, needs, responses, etc. there was *no* difference.

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