> zodiark and hydaelyn could have easily worked together to resolve the situation how exactly? hydaelyn's power is to divide into pieces; zodiark's power is..."to rewrite laws of reality", whatever that means. neither had the ability to follow or do anything to the endsinger. > venat prioritized the lives of some recently-spawned creatures over lives of her fellow ancients, and she killed them all without the foresight you're implying she had i'm not implying she had foresight, in fact "that" cutscene shows that in place of foresight she actually had "faith". > she didn't want to kill new life that would be created after the ascians sacrificed themselves to summon zodiark, but she was fine with killing all of the ascians and splitting up their souls to create lesser-races that would die and be reborn indefinitely. because it was the pre-ascian ancients' fault the world got all fucked up in the first place - case in point, they were already happy to sacrifice each other willy-nilly. their culture sucked if they were willing to do that to each other.
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