Talk:Dettlaff van der Eretein/@comment-94.254.144.205-20171017103924/@comment-86.185.214.225-20171113230512

Dettlaff had been viciously dismembering citizens in Anna-Henrietta's city for weeks. The idea that he would do the same to Syanna was not unreasonable and what do you know? That's exactly what he does if not stopped. And no, she "forced" nothing. The decision to attack was his and only his. By your logic a mugging victim who is shot for refusing to hand over their wallet is to blame and the mugger should be allowed to go free. After all he wouldn't have murdered the victim if they'd given the wallet, right?

Of course she wanted Dettlaff dead; he had brutally murdered several people. She is the ruler of Toussaint, if she hadn't wanted him punished then she would be pretty poor ruler. And death was the only punishment available (how in the hell would she imprison an immortal demigod?).

I never said Syanna's history justified what she did, merely that it explains how she ended up that way. She does deserve punishment and she gets it even if spared; she will spend the rest of her life imprisoned. But she also deserves some mercy given her abuse and regrets.

Sure, Dettlaff has eternity to become a better person but in order to do so he first has to accept that he did something wrong. He does not. All those deaths, all the lives he ruined, an atrocity far beyond anything Syanna ever did and he doesn't even care. He gives no impression that he will ever get better and even if he does how many more must die before he learns the lesson?