Talk:Neia Baraja/@comment-110.54.132.157-20180905193338/@comment-216.191.35.106-20180912163125

Neia was just the perfect person to influence. She's an a youthful soldier in a horrific war, with her superiors venting their frustration unjustly on her. Ainz shapes her world view by doing the things that were promised to her by the Paladins but failed when the time came to show it.

Her morality of "Strength is Justice and weakness is sin" also ties more mental and inner strength. She understands that she'd never obtain the level of power of her beloved Overlord but the quote refers to having the mental strength to do what is necessary. Weakness in this case would actually be surrendering and submitting yourself to whatever the strongest being in the area desires. Those that are weak are those that burden the strong, or Ainz, who is justice, so that is sin. While we can talk about the morality of this stance until we're blue in the face, this is the how Neia's world view is shaped into.

How was her view shaped into this? Ainz kept demonstrating it over and over again. When the Paladins backed off when a child was taken hostage Ainz was forced to step in to prevent them from losing momentum and being unable to save the prisoners. Because the Paladins did not have the mental strength to do what was necessary, they became a burden on Ainz, which Ainz says his mana pool is limited and that he was wasting his strength fixing things and making him lose the ability to save even more people. So we can see why Neia picked this stance. Ainz molded her (completely accidently) into a fanatical whose devotion rivals that of the denizens of Nazarick.