Ah, so Venat was very much looking at the bigger picture of hume/Occuria relations. And in that sense, she (I'm pretty sure Venat was meant to be female, at least based on this replay) got what she wanted before the game even started, since it appears that Dr. Cid succeeded in making stable nethecite offstage.

Good info on the Draklor sage knowledge -- I should really just dig up a source for all of that and read through it, it will be a lot easier to retain that way than by just flipping through pages and pages of monster notes on the TV screen!

And what happened to Venat after the 3rd battle with Vayne???

I absolutely wonder this, too. Was she merged with Vayne so deeply that she died when he did? Did she float away to fight another day? Or does she even care to keep fighting, now that her primary objective has been achieved? It's a puzzle.