Sorry to be a bit more off topic than the base topic of discussion here (I'll probably make a proper revelations post afterwards since I've been missing from the forum for a while). But I think we need to give Zenos a bit more credit than simply being a 'lame anime villain'. The interesting parts of Zenos have to deal with the almost meta aspects of his character. Namely how they recognize a sort of 'gaming mindset' of simply seeking greater and greater challenges. The fact that your character can, thanks to a lot of the new dialogue options, basically agree with his views is part of his appeal. While he's a villain through and through, he takes an interesting sociopath angle where he can really only understand the world in one way. That's why in the end, he calls the player character his only friend, since he believes they are the only ones equally separate from humanity. Whether he's right or not is ultimately up to the player however. And I looked through his statements a while back, and he never exactly denounced Garlemald. Indeed, he seems to agree with their quest for strength, but finds their justifications for it lacking and hypocritical. I understand the idea that it would have been nicer to have some more grey in the conflict, and there was a little between Baut and a few other factors.