Talk:Demiurge/@comment-2001:56A:7407:CC00:6439:D104:4FED:2A3B-20181028224146/@comment-36873764-20181029070539

You should know that he could just easily kidnap Enri, Nemu, Nfirea and his grandmother to Nazarick and force them to work there but he didn't.

Of course he could do that, but it would be less efficient than letting them work by their own free will. It's not because he has much in the way of real concern for them. As he told Clementine, if the Swords Of Darkness had impeded his goals he'd have killed them just as readily as she did.

He also gave Enri the horn, which later is what save the village.

Horns which were to him little more than a joke gift, because he had no idea how useful they'd prove to be.

'You really think Sebas is a good guy? He is the same as any other character, he's grey. He put himself in a position of judge, jury and executioner.'

Sebas is +300 Karma, the highest in Nazarick. That does make him exceptionally good compared to the -500 of Ainz, Albedo, or Demiurge. That doesn't mean he is morally perfect. He would have killed Tuare at Pandora's Actor's command after all, but left to his own devices he does generally choose what we consider to be the most moral options, from rescuing Tuare to helping Climb and Brain. Certainly he kills people he deems to be wicked, or to have insulted Nazarick, but from what we've seen he doesn't engage in torture or tormenting those weaker than himself. He simply kills them. In your hypothetical scenario he would simply do what he originally did for Tuare, take the victim away from their attackers.

It is quite likely that a guild of +500 karma angelic players and NPCs would find many things in this world that need to be killed. Slavers, whore mongers, the Golden Princess, Ainz and Demiurge, but they would not, for example, use an innocent and much loved queen as a flail to beat others to death, killing her in the process, as Demiurge did. It's also unlikely that they would conduct experiments involving feeding prisoners their own limbs before administering healing potions, or when there is a food shortage among prisoners using children as food, as Demiurge did.

Calca Bessarez was good, so good in fact that she was not even prejudiced against demi-humans, and treated everyone justly and fairly.

The main reason why books build up an evil character is so that we experience a greater vicarious thrill at their eventual defeat, but when the evil character is literally the most powerful being in the story, yet persists in senseless evil, it just becomes tedious and somewhat depressing. We rate the strength of the various heroes by how they compare to the weakest of Ainz's servants, not how they compare to Ainz himself.

The cruelty of Demiurge, and the indifference of Ainz, serves no real end. From a practical perspective Nazarick is the most powerful single state in that world. If it wouldn't fall to a player invasion on the Yggdrasil servers, it's not going to fall to a world where the average level is about one twentieth of Yggdrasil.

Even if you are evil you gain the most advantage by letting people think you are good, like Princess Renner, and exploiting their naivity to your advantage. If you practise cruelty on a grand scale you simply inspire people to work against you, even if they're unable to overcome you directly.