Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
I mean, this is the same Convocation who has spent the past 12000 years trying to deliberately end the lives of every living being across 14 worlds. You can try to make them look more sympathetic, but you can't undo 8 years worth of writing.

This is one of the reasons why it's not a good idea to design matryoshka doll villains, because the innermost one ends up being responsible by proxy for all the bad in the world. If you have multiple, parallel antagonistic factions, some of whom are at odds with each other, then they tend to become a lot less polarizing and a lot more sympathetic. Garlemald and Allag both would have been a lot more interesting had Emet never touched them. But the power differential was so one-sided that they ended up becoming merely puppet dictatorships. Emet's introduction scene with Varis single-handedly destroyed Varis' character.
And yet, people still sympathize with a character who we’ve been her puppet for the past 8-10 years, with 0 agency for ourselves, and who knew of multiple deaths, and destruction and still let it all happen anyways.