Quote Originally Posted by AnAverageAspie View Post
I definitely agree. Though to predict other people's reasoning while I vent about the stories excuses:

Some could ask the same question, 'Why is Roegedyn the main focus of a Antagonist and past queen in a lineage of Hrothgars?' And if for the reason of "lets sacrifice someone else", how did these super soilder blades do a bang up job in not finishing up the whole business so there would be no coincidental descendants of a specific shrine maiden that became an aether consuming demigod?
I am not going to let this go, its a dumb twist. Whats so hard about making a villian not have some significant ties to past lore in the story? The twist villian could just be someone who is moved by the revolt and desire to take action. Having her coincidentally be a descendant is just silly to me and muddied the sincerity of her fears. G'raha Tia's lineage is from a Race/Culture of people, a bit on the royal side but not towards a specific individual that would give him the red eyes of allag.
She sounds like an angry young adult who has some birthright to take over and enslave Bozja and its resistance members for the approval of some father figure. Thats probably the point but I will not feel any sympathy when I land my axe between her eyes and stiff upper lip (All bets on redemption being the solution-_-).

Maybe next patches will have us bring back the previous queen or some future grand daughter since we are playing the, "descendent of super important figure for Hamlet BS" card :/
I assume her play is to fell both the resistance and the empire and bring the Bozjan people under her rule. The conversation at the end of the Castrum seems to imply that she can't be trusted and should be used as fonder. Furthermore, the idea that she is a descendant legitimatizes this claim to the throne and gives her access to knowledge that should have been left in the past.

Call it a dumb twist, but Matsuno's stories tend to give all the characters reasons to behave badly.