Talk:Phillip Strenger/@comment-84.159.133.106-20160601114920

Very, very well written character.

And very controversial.

As for the whole question about who is right or wrong people should consider a few facts :

First of the whole setting, aside from the fantasy part this is pretty much medival Europe during wartimes. Violence during those times was not a rare thing at all...

Second, the war in general...nowadays we offer war veterans therapy and whatnot, not always with success...and that at times is after a single war...The baron has seen bloodshed for YEARS. Guy propably was broken allready when he returned from all those wars. Some serious Ptsd there.

Maybe the thought of returning to his family was was what kept him alive through all of that horror in the first place...just to find out there was nothing left for him to return to in the end...

Does this EXCUSE what he did ?

Surely not.

But we can't really apply the standards of our society here....this is a world where people die left and right any day, not just by war, but also by hunger, desease, magic and monsters... death always sits right next to you, grinning in your face there