Talk:Avallac'h/@comment-2.33.87.149-20190204001237

When I read opinions about Avallac'h I can only think people don't understand a thing about grey morality and grey-ish characters. It doesn't make sense to judge so harshly when the story has such a complex ethic. You can't even judge with "our world" principles and rules, honestly; the context is important.

There is who hates him because he's Aen Elle, even if we know almost nothing about them and their history. Who's butthurt because Ciri cares for him too much, and who sees him as the devil (lol, sorry) because he had sinned exactly like the majority of the grey-ish characters in The Witcher and sometimes even less. Who hates all the Aen Elle because they slaughtered humans (how and when? Before or after Lara's death? It's not even clear, considering that Lara, an Aen Elle, was an idealist that wanted peace between humans and elves), whereas they are pretty much oppressed that became oppressors. You all don't even try to think about his point of view, the fact he spent years (?) with Cirilla alone, his belief in destiny and prophecies and how this fuc*ed up his entire life (he's a prophet!), his love for Lara and the illness that came from that deep wound (Lara was killed with violence by humans by the way - yes, they are very racists too). He was even a breeding horse himself when he was young, a puppet in the Aen Saevhernes projects and schemes. Really make you think.

Like all the High Intelligent characters (even the "good one") Avallac'h is a very cerebral person, who puts the common good above personal feelings and thus believe that the means justify the ends. Nevertheless he never treated Ciri bad despite the blackmail (and Ciri was absolutely no one to him, a stranger at best and a human that reminded him how destiny mocked him all his life), not even in the beginning when he certainly despised her more: he overreacted just one time because he was hurting, and that's that. Avallac'h could have taken her to his laboratory for better results, so why did he not? The fact that he is so cerebral that he wants to pursue his plans (for his people) until the very end doesn't mean that he doesn't have other feelings. Two things can coexist, you know, people are not so plain and simple. He has, clearly, an emotional conflict toward Ciri, this is showed in a lot of ways during the game and the books; and this says a lot. We know nothing about what him and Ciri did all those years together, that's the problem, but damn, they stayed together all the time. You can imagine. He was sad on the pier for Caranthir, too. It's simply unfair to the character to disregard his complexity and internal turmoil. That doesn't mean he's not a prick, but he's not evil either. Not all the characters are Evil because they aren't bff with our dear protagonists.