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He could have, if he had a shuriken and it was a serious situation. But he doesn't really need to, he just needs to evade until the attacker is fatigued and then kill him. Heck, he doesn't even need to evade a pirate that much, given how slow they are in comparison to a ninja master. They'll just need to back flip a few times and throw a shuriken.

I'm still playing EO1.

Ninjas have special stealth swimming techniques too. Ships are just a smaller "land" so it wouldn't make much of a difference, I don't think. Actually, blindly swinging wouldn't do them any good. Ninjas are extremely good at avoiding hits, especially when it comes to weapons. I've seen a video of a ninja master trying to hit his student with a pole but he couldn't land a single hit. The student's evasion was ridiculously swift.

Real ninjas are extremely adept fighters, using stealth and deception tactics (among other things) to get an advantage over their opponent. If the opponents aren't very skilled, they won't even need stealth and deception (most pirates fall into this). Just look up actual ninjas on Youtube; I assure you, the ninjas depicted in almost all of fiction are only ninjas in name. Real ones are capable of amazing feats of skill, like running on walls, back flipping up a cliff, wall climbing, disappearing into thin air and many other things, instead of things like magic (hi Naruto). Though pirates are pretty skilled themselves, they're not on the same level as ninjas. Even pirate captains aren't skilled enough for a ninja. Yes, a single ninja can take out an entire ship of pirates. So pirates versus an equal amount of ninjas wouldn't even stand a chance. I know you're doing it FE style here, but actual pirates used swords more than axes. I'm not even sure if they used axes at all.

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I would go out of my way to kill you.

The deaths just seemed to increase rapidly, according to Lekain's story of that other king who signed the pact (previous king of Kilvas?). So rapidly that the king practically begged the senate to stop it. So it was probably doubled every day or something.

Well, they say that the risk is too great and if the Senators find out that they couldn't stop the Apostle's Army, or if they find out that they asked for their help/made peace with them, then they would invoke the curse. So when you decide to not kill Pelleas, asking for help (or whatever) not being a choice, they think and think and think until they remember that Almedha seemed to know something about these pacts. So they ask her and she recites Ashnard's tale.

Clued in? You mean how they found out it didn't work? Because the pact mark on Pelleas' arm didn't disappear, if that's what you meant.

Sign him up Hika.

Actually, Pelleas said it would end the contract if someone killed him, but Almedha said that the contract also needs to be destroyed, and, if I'm not wrong, it's enough to just kill one side of it.

Yeah, but what really matters here is that they still managed to stir things up, manipulate all the races in the world into believing lies and acting upon those lies, all while merrily eating and drinking in their giant mansions, and everyone hates them for it. I think, as villains, they accomplished a lot here, even if you don't have respect/admiration for how they did what they did (which you shouldn't, because if you knew such people in real life you wouldn't like them for ruining lives and stirring up other mischief across the world). The spoiled brat dimension gives you even more to hate, like he's just a person with no real talent or anything, he just has power and he's using it as he sees fit. Like giving a kid the keys to a nuclear silo, or something. That's how I look at it, anyway.

Isn't that what makes a good villain, though? I really think that villains should be characters you actually hate, or love to hate, or go "Good God, this guy is evil!" or anything along those lines. This is why Dio Brando is one of the greatest villains of all time (specifically in arc 1) because everything he does makes you loathe him, and loathe him very, very much, even though you do develop a certain liking/respect for how well of a villain he is. And for this reason I think that sympathetic villains are, more often than not, stupid.

THAT'S THE SAD THING ABOUT IT But take note that I was suggesting a what if situation.

I would totally meet Bianchi if I were in Texas.

Man it'll be some time after that when I get my Juris Doctor.