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The way I understand it is that the original marker was designed to both have a passive pull and to be used for punctual injections of anima. Just as the mega marker was designed to do both.

If it was only a drain, soon all the Dreams of Mah would be depleted of energy and die off. The ritual, while it partly gives some energy to Mah, was more used to rep-power the remaining mahjarrat. We know that the ritual powered up the others because the Chellon mah used it.

Yes, there are 4 tribes of Dreams of Mah. Yes, the Mahserrat died partly because they were captured and used for sacrifice. Bilrach also mentions that they withered up and died. That's not my point though. The Dreams of Mah have existed longer than the rituals, so if the Mahserrat were previously mostly being killed off by being used as sacrifices then during the time that they existed without rituals they should have only been drained. But with no way to restore themselves (since the rituals did not exist) they would not have survived very long if they were being drained. Since they did exist for sometime then they must not have been drained.

It is ambiguous as to what the increased size of the Mega ritual stone actually did. We know for sure that it allowed for an increase in drain-rate, and allowed for Mah to drain Seren, Zaros, and Zamorak. Who know's, maybe Seren's also was able to puncture through the abyss. The quote you posted can be interpreted in two ways. 1) being the way that you interpreted it. That Mah had done something that had never done before. 2) that the speaker was impressed that she had punctured the abyss in the sense that they were amazed that she could do that considering her disabilities. The same way you might be impressed that a kid in a wheel-chair could rock climb, even though lots of people can rock climb.

Personally, I think there is good evidence that Seren's stone also punctured through the abyss.

Khazard was born in the third age. Zamorak was made a god at the end of the Second age. Thus Zamorak was god when Khazard was born.

The modern day mahjarrat, except after CoM, were like batteries in the sense that they are energy sources, and Mah drains them, and then they need recharging. Now your Kharshai example is interesting.

Kharshai was able to limit how much energy he lost by not using his energy, which could be interpreted as him being a battery that just burns up energy when they use their power. However, this understanding contradicts Azzandra. Azzandra was locked in the pyramid, and couldn't use his powers, nor had any knowledge of time passing. He shouldn't have lost his power but Temple of Sennenistien/Ritual of a Mahjarrat revealed he did.

So there must be some other element to losing your power besides simply using them. Perhaps, to be drained of energy you have to have knowledge of Mah, to form some sort of attachment for the tether across the abyss? Kharshai erased his memory so there would be no tether. I'll admit that this is kind of a lorefail, but it was a lorefail from before CoM.

Personally, I think there is a lot of evidence supporting that Seren caused the draining. Keep in mind evidence is not proof though...

-CoM has a ritual stone that drains mahjarrat. If one ritual stone drains mahjarrat then presumably all ritual stones drain mahjarrat.

-The Mahserrat were not on the brink of extinction before Seren created the ritual stones, thus they couldn't have been slowly draining away.

-Mah was able to exist for 8k years with no rituals. She was previously very close to death. The only explanation is that she received energy from the mahjarrat across the galaxy to sustain herself.

The Mahjarrat are also mad at Seren because she caused the extinction of 3 tribes of the Dreams of Mah. Before the rituals, there was no reason to sacrifice one another. After the rituals, they had every reason to sacrifice one another. As we have already stated, the Mahserrat were mostly killed off by being used as sacrifices. Seren is at fault for this because without her, there would be no sacrifices. Chellonmah also would not all be dead because they had no reason to kill one another without the need for sacrifices. We don't know how the other tribe died off, but I presume it was related to sacrifices.

Zamorak is also personally mad because her meddling with their race caused them their culture to grow up inheritably violent, and destructive. (Personally, I think that's a bit hypocritical of Zamorak, but that's more of a flaw of Zamorak rather than his point since his point is valid.)