Gustav iv

What does that have to do with the part where jeralt dies and the village is burning and they confront Solon and kronya. your comparing apples to oranges. Once she sees what twisted did she realizes it was a mistake..

Why such black white view in this thread.. Come on I thought serenes forest was a forum with skilled fire emblem players who take a critical view of the story. edelgard was not involved with jeralts murder. That is completely Kronya and twisted. Why do anti edelgard people completely ignore the disgust disbelief edelgard had and anger against twisted when they were burning remote village. She was not an accessory rather I would call her a captive prisoner forced to toe the line lest she be eliminated. It’s quite common in real life too. In history there are plenty of examples of rulers who because they had no power to fight their captors were forced to go along with there captors plans. Take Nicholas ii or Louis of France both of whom during the revolution phase were captured by the rebels and forced to issue edicts that they did not support or even Napoleon iii after sedan or Francis ii after Pavia. That’s not called being an accessory but a political prisoner. Legally in modern court edelgard would be tried at an intl tribunal and judged a political prisoner so she was not at fault. she also used a valid cases beli for war/claim so legal post timeskip while the war may not have been the right thing to do legally she is allowed to do it and she also follows the rules during war at least with byleth at side she is not a villain. I mean you would not call the French invasion of Italy over pressing their claim in Naples their king Louis an evil villain/monster. He was a monarch with a claim he decided to press that lead to the Italian wars that devastated Italy but legally he had the casus beli. now was she in the wrong for trying to kill nobles with bandits in beggining yes. But plenty of rulers in history who today are venerated as heroes used similar tactics. Was her stealing of the holy relics wrong of course. However was she responsible for or played role in jeralts murder that is a no. The way way I view edelgard is that in the pre timeskip half of the story she is a prisoner of twisted and toes their line because she would be eliminated otherwise but at the same time does so in a way that can further her goals. post timeskip she becomes a villain and a well written one when byleth is not by her side. This is because she becomes a monster who lets the war she started consume her and let the power get to her and the influence of twisted corrupt her. However in her route because byleth is there she is able to more forcefully stand up to twisted and her descent into madness does not take place. In her route at least she follows the rules of war sparing those who surrender are defeated and in the end steps down as empreror, after fulfilling her goal. it seems fire emblem community has difficulty with nuance not sure if that is a good observation and I don’t blame them it’s tough to deal with a non black and white game when all you know is oh this is good side that is bad etc. blue vs red etc as has been for like so long. to conclude edelgard is not responsible nor expect jeralts murder or remire village incident and in the first half of the game she is a political prisoner and in the second half depending on whether byleth sides with her or not she becomes a mad empress be on word domination or an antihero/revolutionary.