Plus if this weren't a protagonist centred morality situation, a good chunk of the population would still be seeing her and her followers as brutal, murderous conquerors who caused thousands of deaths and laid waste to half the country in order to murder the rightful king and seize his throne.
For all his flaws, Galby did empower humans and allow human culture to flourish. Additionally, Terim and Uru-Baen seem reasonable prosperous, and there is religious freedom with the Helgrind religion. This is all canonical. Even if the common people didn't like him, he's still better than someone who laid waste to a bunch of cities and killed a bunch of people. The people of England were pissed when William the Conqueror took over. And then the Harrowing of the North followed.
He keeps doing incredibly stupid things but at least I don't hate him.
He does do genuinely selfless things without there being a benefit. Like when he healed Essie's arm so he could see if the pot of boiling water falling on her was actually an accident. He also genuinely feels horror at the fact that all those soldiers drowned due to the elves, even though it wasn't his fault. I empathized because I felt horrified with him, when I felt that. And he doesn't torture anybody, like Eragon did with Sloan.
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Plus if this weren't a protagonist centred morality situation, a good chunk of the population would still be seeing her and her followers as brutal, murderous conquerors who caused thousands of deaths and laid waste to half the country in order to murder the rightful king and seize his throne.
For all his flaws, Galby did empower humans and allow human culture to flourish. Additionally, Terim and Uru-Baen seem reasonable prosperous, and there is religious freedom with the Helgrind religion. This is all canonical. Even if the common people didn't like him, he's still better than someone who laid waste to a bunch of cities and killed a bunch of people. The people of England were pissed when William the Conqueror took over. And then the Harrowing of the North followed.
He keeps doing incredibly stupid things but at least I don't hate him.
He does do genuinely selfless things without there being a benefit. Like when he healed Essie's arm so he could see if the pot of boiling water falling on her was actually an accident. He also genuinely feels horror at the fact that all those soldiers drowned due to the elves, even though it wasn't his fault. I empathized because I felt horrified with him, when I felt that. And he doesn't torture anybody, like Eragon did with Sloan.