Talk:Goddess Ilias/@comment-25303995-20150206060022/@comment-25707465-20150207102834

I remembered what Michaela said before about Alipheese the 1st during the main exposition sequence of chapter 3, there's just 3 things I took into account with it.

1. It's Michaela. She betrayed Ilias after the Remina massacre which is more than understandable, however her vision may be slightly skewed, and she may have gone from following Ilias to finding malice behind everything she does. Also, it does not help that following this, Ilias happened to lost one of her closest and moderate followers to find herself with the psychotic idiot of the lot. Because yes, if I had to chose a follower between Eden and Michaela, I would not even need to think twice about it.

2. It's a question of perspective from both sides of war. While Michaela and everyone said Alipheese sealed herself and the ancestors away to basically prevent the war from destroying the world, Ilias viewed it as saving the mankind, as coexistence would mean the human population dying out as monsters can only rarely bear male childrens, or seems to have to be really powerful to do it. This last point is even exposed in one of the post final boss dialogue (In happiness village I think), and Alipheese might not have taken it into account.

3. The ending sequence, where Ilias herself expose her "true feelings" and heal Luka out of gratitude. It shows that every characters are not fully white or fully black.

So yeah, Ilias is not close to be a sympathetic villain (It's only in the last minute that you get to see her good side), but she is not even close to make it to my top 5 most hated villains, since she had a few moments of good attention. Even in the game, there's several villains that I hate more. Eden, Black Alice, La Croix, Eden, Spider Princess... Did I mention Eden ? It's basically like if Ilias decided that the first Seraph should be wise, the second would be a strong warrior, and the third should be emotional, and by emotional I mean more crazy than Ilias.

Also, Paradox is an alternate timeline, where a great catastrophe happened 30 years ago during the Remina massacre : there has been enough info about what happens when too much monsters get killed at the same time to get a hint at what could possibly have happened there, and I guess a certain black alice had one job that may not have been done properly this time. Alipheese may be slightly pissed of at Ilias and her followers, which may explain why there are powerful succubi roaming. Anyway, this will be a perfect occasion to see how the first Monster Lord really is, and how Ilias will really be since she will not be the main antagonist. (Heaven's faction is currently led by Eden, hope she will be a little more responsible with Ilias away.)