Talk:Ureirika/@comment-32428067-20180702070303/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180703050334

Ultimately, while Jircniv does deserve blame for what happened to Arche and her companions (and was the proximate cause of her family's desperate financial circumstances, though I blame her father for that more than Jircniv, since it was clearly right to deprive such an imbecile of his titles, and her father is the one that made their finances that much worse in an absurd attempt to cultivate relationships with an imaginary faction willing/able to restore his titles), I think that we also need to keep in mind that he deserves a lot of credit for overcoming the decadence of his nation to the point where taking it over intact without the need for a bloody civil war (which is demonstrably necessary for both the Holy Kingdom of Roble and the Re-Estize Kingdom, despite differing details) was possible.

Not everything Jircniv did to purge the nobility and put the Empire on a course towards civil government rather than civil war was particularly 'nice', after all, it was inevitable that cases like Arche should occur among the purged nobility, and it's not like he was being nicer to the ones who made it necessary to execute their entire family outright. But it did made the difference between losing a few hundred lives all told and losing hundreds of thousands.

We might wish for Jircniv to have acted wisely enough to save a few more of those lives, but we should also give him some credit for making it possible for Ainz to spare countless lives in the Empire.