Quote Originally Posted by Elladie View Post
I completely agree with this.

But prepare yourself to be harangued by a number of people who remain convinced that 'good' and 'evil' are absolutes and that we represent the former whilst the Ascians are entirely the latter. Similarly Zodiark is entirely evil, according to them, whilst Hydaelyn is entirely good.

I wonder how much the writers regret using the darkness metaphor for the Ascians initially since it plays so much into the hands of the absolutists. I guess they did their best to show us 'Light as evil' in ShB but an age-old trope is still an age-old trope.
I think a lot of those posters are often led astray by bias towards certain characters but also often due to allowing head-canon for their Warrior of Light to bleed with reality.

The writers have thankfully confirmed on multiple fronts - both in-game and out - that nuance exists and beyond a few straight up evil characters such as Zenos many battles are merely a matter of perspective, moral relativism and politics.

Luckily Emet-Selch has proven to be a very popular character so I'm fairly confident in saying that the writers will very likely take that on board moving forward.