Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
I agree with all of this, but I was still left with the impression that we were supposed to sympathize with him and that he wasn't any worse than any of the other Ascians/Ancients. I'm not able to look it up at the moment, but I got the same impression when Yoshi-P was comparing Hermes and Venat in the LL.
In fairness to Yoshi-P, I thought he came down pretty firmly on "nope" when Hermes was being discussed as the "most human" of the Ancients in the voice actor roundtable from a while back.

As a true-blue Hermes fan, though, I have to admit I don't find his treatment any more egregious than the sympathy extended to other people like Yotsuyu or even Emet-Selch. My only problem with the montage was really more that Elidibus wasn't there--though he's continuing on through the patches, so even that has an explanation.