It's been a while, but I remember years ago when I did the quests to rescue the scions and disguised myself as a Garlean soldier. I spoke with the npcs that I was stationed with ... they were all seemingly "normal" my memory is hazy, but I remember one had a family and would have returned to his homeland eventually. Then we revealed ourselves and killed that group which offered a nice bit of moral greyness to our character

I was genuinely impressed that they weren't all stereotypically evil. Afterwards that wasn't the case anymore.