Talk:Dettlaff van der Eretein/@comment-10739965-20180915121817

It's a bit odd for a vampire I think, when they "die" by normal means they treat it as an injury at best or a permanant/long lasting prison at worse, like when Regis was made into architecture. I don't think Dettlaff understood death quite as we do, that for us it is the end...not a set back, but the end end and ghosts and possible ressurrections are not the norm, and some would argue that death is the better option then. Perhaps he missunderstands quite the differences in death between us. Like he knows it's bad for us, but doesn't know the full extent and we don't get as many chances as vampires do until the very last end. So while he kills for his loved one and then massacres the city, maybe he thinks it's just a warning, some pain to dole out and doesn't realise the full damage it causes. Maybe he does and he has just simply gone mad.

Either way, I could not forgive him for the massacre of the city. Whether one understands what they are doing doesn't make all the death go away and if a drastic measure ensures they stop killing all those innocent people....then so be it. It's like the lesser evil thing again, kill one to save many lives or kill nobody and leave many to die at the hands of others.

I also let Syanna die, sure later she could have regret what she did, but it's known that she can she be incredibly irrisponsible and cause all this to happen and being who she is, I think the risk of her doing it again is too great. She may not have killed anyone herself directly, but without her doing what she did, nobody would have died. She was pushed into it from bullying but that doesn't give her a free pass to lie and manipulate the one that she duped into loving her to kill. Hiring an emotionally unstable vampire to do your bidding....what the hell was she expecting? There could have been any other response to her miss treatment but using a vampire that has much to learn about humanity was just asking for trouble and that's exactly whay she and others got for it.