#like yes the BOE doesnt want to treat judiths pain bc shes a necromancer

[berah-ronah]

honestly at this point im committed to stanning the blood of eden no matter what shit goes down in Nona and Alecto, and 90% of it is bc of the people ive seen who are hand-wringing and talking about how “WELL ACTUALLY, dont you know that BOTH SIDES ARE BAD in this conflict”

#like yes the boe has done some shit #and clearly has some not great ideological beliefs #but by basically ANY metric of comparison theyre better than the empire both in their degree of shittiness and the scale of the harm they ca #*scale of the harm they cause #and the reason why theyre framed as bad is intentional!! every narrator/pov character grew up in the Empire #they saw the empire at its best and the BOE at its worst!!! #of COURSE they would see the BOE on a range between ''evil'' and ''misguided rebels/terrorists'' #like yes the BOE doesnt want to treat judiths pain bc shes a necromancer #which i cannot stress enough is bad #but do ppl really think the houses are taking prisoners to begin with? let alone treating them? #yes its bad that at least one group among the boe burns necromancers alive #but those SAME NECROMANCERS drain the life from their comrades in a specifically excruciating way #or turn their corpses into hand grenades #basically every glimpse weve seen of the BOE indicates that theres more ideological and moral variety than the nine houses #and the violence they inflict is specifically a response to the violent colonization and destruction of their homes #even the ''good'' ppl from the nine houses talk about ''peacefully integrating them'' bc it makes economic sense!!!!! #it just drives me crazy that so many ppl frame the empire/boe conflict as one with No Good Guys #where all you can do is just throw up your hands and condemn them both #ANYWAY ill calm down and stop rambling about fictional fantasy politics #the locked tomb