[quote=@agentmanatee]
A few things I have noticed

2. A surprising lack of resentment for the brigands, bandits and sellswords doing all the conscripting, as well as a lack of hate for the God Eaters who helped take it.

I'm just listing things I have noticed, nothing more. Though it was interesting enough to mention
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It's possible that Zenith is still in a "renaissance" of sorts.
As icmasticc mentioned, we (in the RP) live in an age where travel is still done on foot/horseback and the flow of news takes a long time. Orders such as The Enclave serve as a repository for the collective sum of human knowledge, so that if an event like The Catastrophe happens again, knowledge of medicine, metallurgy and architecture will not be lost. 
We have a parallel in human history - the burning of the Library of Alexandria. All ancient knowledge was essentially wiped out after the library in Alexandria was immolated. It is hard to separate rumors, half-truths and mistranslations from other cultures and even harder if you lose written historical accounts of those rumors. 

It may be that The God Eaters actions are viewed as the drunken tales of bards and travelers. Something knights tell each other while drowning in ale, so that the fisherman in the same tavern comes to believe it is just the drunken ramblings of a traumatized warrior. 

It's not that The God Eaters are getting a free pass -- [i]rest assured that The Enclave views your organization's actions with pious disgust[/i] -- but that people simply assume that the stories of cannibalism are just that, stories. It's hard to upset people if they doubt your organizations existence, (although we have people IRL who are up in arms about an imagined "Illuminati", but aren't particularly upset about the violent criminals in their own cities.) 

In an age where it can take a few days for carrier pigeons to deliver a short message or a week's travel by foot to the next nearest city, it is easy to understand how smallfolk and nobles alike would view The God Eaters as a rumor, (the same way biblical people propagandized their enemies by accusing each other of sacrificing babies.) A similar disbelief or denial may plague those who have never met a God Eater. Those in Sorei know the truth, but what about a struggling fisherman from Markovia? Would the seafaring man concern himself with the God Eaters or would he be more concerned with how difficult it is to transport tea leaves to the acolytes of The Enclave in Scion (due to the ICC-Markovia feud?)

Summary: People may be more upset at the state of Eteria than Erickson realizes. ;P

If I was a peasant in Zenith, that's probably how I'd view things. And then I'd get back to farming.