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  1. Consider this, at the end of Claud's Path we learn from Rhea that the world used to be far more advanced than it is today. Some people used that technological power to revel against the goddess. The resulting war wiped out most of humanity and ravaged the land. The goddess had to use her last remaining power to restore the world and humanity as best she could. So at the beginning of time, humanity is coming of off an apocalypse essentially. Also, let me be clear on this, just because time passes does not mean that technological advances will be made. If you need an example, we still have people on earth that live on mud huts and hunt with spears. Also, progress is not a fixed goal, people can make progress in any and all endeavors. For instance, the ancient Japanese used swords and 700 years later they still used swords but had become incredibly more sophisticated at all. They weren't lazy or unmotivated they made progress in the sword, you get me? Just because there aren't guns, and flying cars doesn't mean they didn't make advancements in areas like education, tactics, craftmanship, commerce, magic, healing, etc.
  2. So I have beaten the game on all the four paths and I got to say, Edelgard sucks. Both as a character and as a villain she proves to be unlikeable. I feel like a lot of people like her just because she is a female when they might abhor an identical character is the genders were reversed. Anyone, I will try to organize my grievances against her as best as I can. Edelgard wants war on the church for no good reason! Let's address something that many people bring up "Oh she is trying to destroy the theocracy, she is so progressive and ahead of her time" To which I say, BULLSHIT. Fodland is not a THEOCRACY, we are shown very well what the political landscape of the continent looks like, and from were am standing, it looks like none of the existing powers are ruled by the church. Were exactly is this so-called theocracy people keep mentioning? Moving on, it seems Edelgard mainly hates the church because of crests. However, we know that crests and relics were not created by the church or the goddess. They were made from the desecrated corpses of the goddess and her children. Keep in mind, Reah a.k.a Seiros, KNOWS this. Every single day, for over a thousand years, she has had to live with a constant reminder that her mom and her siblings were slaughtered and desecrated to create crests. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE should hate crests more than Reah herself. However, what does she do? she creates an utterly benign organization to care and Shepard humanity. What does Edelgard do? she sides with a shady organization that SHE KNOWS IS UP TO NO GOOD, to bring death and destruction upon the church just to sate her selfish desires. Make no mistake, they are SELFISH desires, which brings me onto my second point. Edelgard is utterly selfish, egotistical and frankly dictatorial. So Edelgard hates crests, Edelgard has a tragic childhood. Guess what sweetheart, GET. IN. LINE. Every other character has a tragic back story and a good reason to hate crests. The world sucks and we are all just trying to live in it and become better people. That is the problem with Edelgard, she thinks SHE IS THE BETTER PERSON. She believes that she alone knows what is best for the Fodland. Sure there are people that hate crests like Sylvain, Mariane, and Lysithea but there are also people that love crests like Lorens, Linhardt, and Hanneman. There are people that disagree with the church but there are also those that love the church (best girl Mercedes) However, to Edelgard all those that don't agree with her can go die in a ditch, better yet, she will put them there herself. In pursuit of her ideals, Edelgard shipped over diplomacy, negociation or social reform and went straight for war, military domination and dictatorship. In pursuit of her ideals, she sanctioned experimentation on innocents, the destruction of innocent villages, furthered the goals of a blatantly evil organization, started a war that claimed untold numbers of people. Honestly, the Hight of Hypocricy happens after Edelgard kills Dimitry. She says, "If only you were born in a time of peace, you might have been a good ruler" (or something like that, I don't remember the exact Quote) Am sitting here thinking, YOU WERE ALL BORN IN A TIME OF PEACE, YOU CREATED THE WAR, YOU INSTIGATED NEARLY EVERY VIOLENT EVENT THAT HAS TRANSPIRED IN THIS GAME. Ok, this concludes my tirade. After reading all that I have set forth, ask yourself whether Edelgard likable or not, because from were am standing, she is just a dictator wrapped in a pretty face.
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