Most of the best fictional media past and present has antagonists that the author tries to convey some degree of sympathy on. Even the great Shakespeare plays to this theme with great effect. As does Star wars, all Dan Brown books, hell, even Pokemon. If you look at the other FF games you can find reasons behind the dark motives of the main "evil" characters. In fact I'll put a fun size mars bar up as the ante that you cant find any villain in anything without a sympathetic motive.:mog: