Quote Originally Posted by Forsaken Lover View Post
Except that a disregard for human life and greater-than-thou attitude applies to Vayne as well. He wants to be a Dynast-King at the cost of thousands of lives in a war that is completely unnecessary.

All the death and suffering in the game is Vayne's and Venat's fault, that's make sure that's understood. Just visit Mt. Bur-Omisace. See how the people there are trying desperately to find some peace away from the Hell Vayne has unleashed.

Then Hell is brought to them by Vayne and Venat. Isn't it telling that Judge Bergan is Vayne's biggest fan?
Venat's fault maybe. It's established that Venat possessed Bergan and encouraged him to slaughter the population of Bur-Omisace becasue he really hates organised religion. As a rule, the Occuria all seem to be high-and-mighty gits.

Remember, at no point did I say that Vayne wasn't evil, because face it, he's an ambitious guy who doesn't really care about how many corpses he has to walk over to become Emperor. Keyword there, he doesn't care. Yes, he manipulated the Resistance and Rozarria into starting a war. Yes, he deliberately ignored the idea of compromise so he could wipe out the Resistance. And yes, if the party hadn't stopped him, Rabanastre would have got wrecked in the crossfire. But that's the thing. Vayne was never out to destroy Dalmasca. The only things he was out to destroy were those who opposed him, a, well, if some innocent bystanders get killed as well, that's a shame but it's nothing to cry about. The point is that those people only died because of negligence, not because Vayne was activelt out to kill them. the Occuria on the other hand want Ashe to destroy the entire Empire, including the innocent civilians.

Basically, both Vayne and the Occuria were dicks. But the Occuria were bigger dicks.