I understand how people can end up on opposite sides of a battlefield. There is so seldom a pure wrong and a right in war. People only wish. . . to defend what is close to them. Their loved ones.
Our group? Uhm, that is sort of a complicated question. We all have our own motives, right? We went to the Dynasty because Veth's husband was a prisoner there, and wound up earning the favor of the Queen, so it made sense to stay, but most of us never had a desire to become involved in politics or the war.
For me, though. . . I would say what I care for are the people of the Empire. My father was a soldier in the Empire, so I always. . . I was raised to be loyal, but I also saw first hand the corruption of some of the rulers. That there are people who are a cancer on the Empire, who began this war for selfish reasons and wouldn't care about people like my father. So I became a traitor and defected to the Dynasty because I thought perhaps the enemy of the Empire could come to see that the people of the Empire were not who she should be at war with, that her quarrel could be satisfied by bringing the corrupt to justice.
And ultimately, we were able to leverage our position to get the Dynasty and the Empire to agree to a peace treaty.
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[He shrugs.]
I understand how people can end up on opposite sides of a battlefield. There is so seldom a pure wrong and a right in war. People only wish. . . to defend what is close to them. Their loved ones.
But it must have been difficult.
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[ He doesn't comment on whether or not he had any reservations in fighting against Byleth. ]
Can I ask what it was that you and your group were fighting for?
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[He isn't a stranger to it either, but. . . ]
Our group? Uhm, that is sort of a complicated question. We all have our own motives, right? We went to the Dynasty because Veth's husband was a prisoner there, and wound up earning the favor of the Queen, so it made sense to stay, but most of us never had a desire to become involved in politics or the war.
For me, though. . . I would say what I care for are the people of the Empire. My father was a soldier in the Empire, so I always. . . I was raised to be loyal, but I also saw first hand the corruption of some of the rulers. That there are people who are a cancer on the Empire, who began this war for selfish reasons and wouldn't care about people like my father. So I became a traitor and defected to the Dynasty because I thought perhaps the enemy of the Empire could come to see that the people of the Empire were not who she should be at war with, that her quarrel could be satisfied by bringing the corrupt to justice.
And ultimately, we were able to leverage our position to get the Dynasty and the Empire to agree to a peace treaty.
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That's quite admirable. My hope is that Fódlan can find peace through understanding rather than cannibalism as well but.
I guess rooting out just the corruption is more difficult than total takeover.
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This is a really uplifting conversation, isn't it?