No, her mentality is not "Fuck you I'm going to shatter you guys for wanting to live".
Venat, in an understandable fit of rage because of the ascians apathy, basically said, "Fine, if you're not going to deal with this, I'll MAKE you deal with this myself." and sundered all of the souls
Her mentality per the cutscene is "I'm shattering your souls because you aren't kowtowing to my philosophy". Shattering souls/planets is a pretty extreme act, thus requiring extreme justification. Doing so because she considers them too perfect or whatever is an insane justification for SHATTERING THE SOULS OF AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION AND A PLANET. How does the ancients being apathetic to venats philosophy even remotely justify what she did? By what right does she have to make such demands? "oh you made me mad, hehe soul go brrrr"
Furthermore, they were dealing with it. Hell, the zodiark method would almost certainly have resulted in less casualties than venats psycho sundering plan if you consider all the fallout since.
hungry primal who over time wanted to consume more souls from sacrifices to keep himself sated
Where are you getting this schtick about zodiark going on a soul rampage? As evidenced by hydalin herself, sufficiently advanced primals are capable of not being aether crazed monstrosities. All evidence ingame(as of the post 4th dungeon cutscenes) show zodiark to be a benevolent entity that people
willingly gave themselves to for the greater good.
Zodiark was not a long term solution because eventually he would've died off if he didn't get any sacrifices as with Hydaelin who is slowly running out of power if you paid attention in the previous expansions.
How was he not a long term solution? A fraction of his power was enough to keep the threat away for literally thousands of years, and in the end he didn't run out of juice, he was destroyed. Given that kind of time, a super advanced civilization could very conceivably have found a solution to the problem, but no, lets reset everything to the stoneage and cripple mankinds ability to make speedy scientific progress, that'll fix things.
3. Paradise did cause this; the direct consequences of the ascians wanting to linger in bliss at the expense of innocent people being sacrificed lead to a festering problem that would've eventually given out because, like I said, Zodiark wasn't a forever solution to the problem. "Well then they would just make a new god" yeah, but what does the God they have now need and how much more over time? Are they going to have enough to sate him?
No, it did not. Almost the entirety of the ancient civilization displayed in game were active and productive, they weren't eulmore. As far as I'm aware, hermes was the only dysfunctional one we are shown, something referenced by himself during his own segment. One person going crazy =/= the whole society being deficient due to quality of life. If they hadn't been broken and reset into the stoneage by hydelyn, again, it is absolutely conceivable that such an industrious people could eventually discover a solution.
Also, no, Hermes does not throw a tantrum over a pitbull, he's mad that his bonds with the natural world he created himself and grew attached to was being treated like a superficial facility made only for the purposes of possible luxury or to fulfill a need.
Trying to destroy the world because people breed animals for a purpose is absolutely an insane tantrum. How would you feel if someone here on earth decided to instigate a nuclear apocalypse because of the dairy/beef industry? That'd be pretty shitty, right?
The ascians, who are rightfully considered flawed, after they retire from their positions have to give up their own lives because now they don't serve a purpose to society.
Dude, where are you getting any of this? Did you pay attention? It is a custom that many choose to take part in due to the extreme length of their natural lives, as stated in game. They do it because they feel they've done all they need to after years of existance. At no point does the game say they are killed unwillingly.
Hermes rightfully thinks this is bullshit and how the Ascians, who got very comfortable with their apathetic lives and philosophy regarding Hermes' work, are sociopaths who care nothing about him or his friend who is about to be sacrificed for the sake of the convocation.
He's bummed about his friend choosing to die, at what point does he imply the slightest believe that the other ascians don't care about his mentor or that he will be sacrificed? Really, if you have any screenshots or video it would be nice to see.
No, that's even more fucking retarded than what the writers came up with. It's made very clear that the theory behind the final days is because of stagnation of aether causing it to rot and causing energy to form entities of despair like primals do. We had no idea the Final days were perpetuated by Meteion and neither did Hermes either meaning no matter how much information we gained about Dynamis, it wouldn't have changed shit because Meteion would've still been corrupted by Hermes' anger and would've been commanded to just end the earth because of the motives I mentioned above. Only difference is the warrior of light would have no knowledge of this and basically by that point Etheirys would've been completely fucked and it'd be impossible to forestall the Final Days.
I... I've read this like four times and it reads like gibberish. In the 5 min plan for venat I made up on the spot, she... has her memories? So they would know about meteios/dynamis? I mean she literally does in game, she has her memories, remember how she broke out? Were you paying attention? Knowing what she knew opens so many doors on dealing with the situation, I mean wow. I really have no idea what you're talking about with WoL not knowing, it's hard to make out what you're trying to say here.
Idk I'm sus on this bitch.
