I keep thinking about the concept of omens
if people are reading the lore correctly (and I'm inclined to believe they are) and Omens are linked to the crucible then potentially the only reason they are reviled is politics/religion
which leads to me to next point
(warming : sadness ahead)
you see, no matter how strongly something is ingrained in a society there will always be people willing to go against it
so I do not for even one second believe that every single parent would have willingly given up their child to be tortured to death (as per Omen Bairn description : Omen babies have all their horns excised, causing most to perish.)
imagine a woman who just finished giving birth and can hear her child crying in the room next to hers but when she asks to hold him her husband just gives her a blank stare and she knows and she wails because that is her child and she knows what will happen now and no-one will save him and she cannot protect him
actually no, that is sad. do not imagine that.
another thing not to imagine is an older couple living alone near a forest one day finding an basket with an omen child because the parents could not bear to hand him over
and the old couple takes the child in to raise him and they live so far from people and for a couple of years they are happy until a passing omenkiller sees the child helping his adoptive mother gather herbs in the forest
and then the sun is going down and they are still not home and the old man goes to search for them only to find out his wife was willing to fight until her last breath
also don't imagine imagine a man whose wife just passed away during childbirth tightly clutching the little bundle on his chest and pleading with the midwife not to report the child
meanwhile Marika is that meme of a woman yeeting a toddler (yes, yes we don't know for sure but I don't like her so until proven otherwise I think that is how it went down)
so now that you are sad go out and kill some omenkillers, they deserve it
(THEY LITERALLY MAKE THEIR WEAPONS OUT OF THE HORNS OF OMENS THEY KILLED JFC)