I see it as Bystander Syndrome, which means that Hraesvelgr could have done something, but chose to sit on the fence when it came to the war itself. What I got from him was "I don't really care for man, but I'm not going to do anything about it because I really loved Shiva".


For a dragon, he really sounds wishy washy; he wants to make man suffer, but he doesn't want to assist Nidhogg (other than the eye) because Shiva reminds him of the good man had.