(03-04-2014, 11:26 PM)TheWizard Wrote: See, I could get into a Garlean char who could be considered an anti-villain.
"The Anti-Villain is a villain with heroic goals, personality traits, and/or virtues. Their desired ends are mostly good, but their means of getting there are evil. Alternatively, their desired ends are evil, but they are far more ethical or moral than most villains and they thus use fairly benign means to achieve it, and can be rather heroic on occasion.
They often reach a kind of critical mass that makes them more good than normal villains but not quite heroes, blurring the line between hero and villain the same way an Anti-Hero does, but by coming from the opposite direction."
Since I think it is safe to assume that the citizens of Garlemald don't consider themselves evil and don't do such heinous acts such as slaying people in the streets or offering up blood sacrifices, that is reserved for true evil groups such as the Lambs of Dalamud.
Garlean methods may seem harsh or evil but their goals blur that line of good and evil. Now does conquering nations and killing people in order to bring about regional prosperity and security make them good? No, but it doesn't exactly make them evil either. Its comes down to the question of "Do the ends justify the means?"
Those are my thoughts as well!
 My main (not Aelius... though my main has some ties to Garlemald herself!) I usually play as an anti-villain, and it's super fun and a very interesting balance to keep. I figure Ael will probably be lawful-neutral. Certainly not good, but he's not doing many "bad" things and he has noble goals, at least in his mind.
