History Main / SinsOFOurFathers

** ''Manga/DragonBallSuper'': Subverted in the "Granolah the Survivor Arc". Granolah intends to avenge his race, which was wiped out by the Saiyans, by killing the last living Saiyans. One of his targets happens to be the son of one of the Saiyans who exterminated the Cerealians, but neither Granolah nor Goku is aware of that fact.

* In ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'', the Takakura parents turn out to be [[spoiler:members of a terrorist organization that bombed the Tokyo Subway 16 years before the action took place]]. One of the victims was a little girl named Momoka Oginome...the childhood girlfriend of Shoma and Kanba's teacher, Keiju Tabuki, and the older sister of Shoma's friend/prospect {{Love Interest|s}} Ringo. Shoma actually spells out the trope while revealing to Ringo what he knows about said tragic incident as well as referring to his sister Himari's almost-definitive death that follows as "a curse befalling on the family...as punishment"; he then goes further via [[ItsNotYouItsMe cutting off all contacts with Ringo]], since he's so wracked with guilt and self-hate that ''[[spoiler:he simply can't believe that Ringo refuses to hate him and his family for Momoka's demise]]''. It takes Ringo quite the effort to even try convincing him otherwise and let her hang out with him and Himari.

* A truly atrocious example in ''Manga/RaveMaster''. Lucia, who is all of six years old, is thrown in a maximum-security prison as a precaution since his father was...er...not a very well-liked person. Actually, it goes even deeper than that. [[spoiler:He comes from a [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer literal]] family of {{Cosmic Plaything}}s due to one of his ancestors using Star Memory [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished to undo the apocalypse]].]]

* ''Fanfic/VengeanceOfTheStar'': The assassins targeting Twilight kill Spike ''[[ForcedToWatch right in front of her]]'' just to make her suffer before killing her...only for her to transform into Midnight Sparkle and inflict the same fate upon them, killing the assassins' families while forcing ''them'' to watch their loved ones die.

** Once, Noah...overindulged a little on the wine made from the first grapes produced after the Deluge. [[CantHoldHisLiquor He got naked...and passed out.]] His son, Ham, noticed and decided to [[NakedPeopleAreFunny point and laugh]] before informing his brothers (who covered him up, averting their eyes all the while). When he woke up and found out, Noah blessed his two other sons...and cursed Ham's ''grandson'', saying that those descended from him would be destined to serve those of Ham's brothers.

* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'': Freddy Krueger is targeting the children of those responsible for his murder through their dreams.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'': Professor Anders blames the entire de Rolo family for the fact that Lord and Lady de Rolo refused to fund his research, and only kept him employed as a tutor for their children. He personally handed Percy de Rolo (aged 18) and Cassandra de Rolo (aged 13) over to Ripley to be brutally tortured, and seems to have taken great glee in their suffering. When Percy returns years later to exact his revenge, Anders [[spoiler:slits Cassandra's throat in front of him, mocks him as he tries to prevent her from drowning in her own blood]], and uses his CompellingVoice to force Vox Machina to try to kill Percy.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'': Professor Anders, Percy's childhood tutor, blames the entire de Rolo family for the fact that Lord and Lady de Rolo refused to fund his research. He personally handed Percy de Rolo (aged 18) and Cassandra de Rolo (aged 13) over to Ripley to be brutally tortured, and seems to have taken great glee in their suffering. When Percy returns years later to exact his revenge, Anders [[spoiler:slits Cassandra's throat in front of him, mocks him as he tries to prevent her from drowning in her own blood]], and uses his CompellingVoice to force Vox Machina to try to kill Percy.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoNinjagoMovie'': has Lloyd Garmadon being ostracized most of his life simply because his father happens to be Lord Garmadon, taken to extremes in that he's [[TheScapegoat scapegoat'd]] for the destruction his father does to many businesses within Ninjago City all the while Lloyd hates his father for multiple degrees of ParentalAbandonment.

* In ''VideoGame/DiabloIV'', it's revealed a champion of the Crane Tribe fled rather than fight Baal's army when they invaded Mount Arreat. The entire Crane Tribe was shunned for his cowardice, and even seventy years later they remain pariahs and outcasts.

* ''{{Anime/Voltes V}}'':[[spoiler: The Boazanian Empire runs on a FantasticCasteSystem where those born with horns live as nobles and those born without them are sentenced to be slaves. When Prince Gohl was born, he was hornless, but his family couldn't bear to lose their son to slavery and decided to mask it by giving him prosthetic horns. Gohl frequently witnessed the cruel treatment his fellow hornless Boazanians went through and dreamed of one day creating a society where the horned and hornless co-existed peacefully. On the day of his coronation, his cousin [[ManipulativeBastard Zambajil]], who desired the throne, exposed his horns as prosthetics in front of the public. As a result, Gohl was forcibly enslaved and separated from his wife Lozaria. Gohl spent months working in labour camps, and one day, he found out that Lozaria had died a long time ago in childbirth. Enraged, he used his skill in science and technology to manufacture weapons for slave rebellions against the horned nobles of Boazania. Gohl led multiple slave rebellions before escaping to Earth, as it became too dangerous for him to stay there. Unbeknownst to Gohl, while Lozaria died in childbirth, she delivered a horned baby boy, [[WarriorPrince Prince Heinel]].]] Growing up, Prince Heinel was scapegoated for the actions of a father he never met, and received constant abuse and disdain from those around him. In one of his flashbacks, fellow children pelted him with sticks and stones and physically abused him, and other nobles of Boazania claimed that he would grow up to be a traitor just like his father. Only his maternal grandparents showed him genuine love. Wanting to clear his name, Heinel vowed to one day bring honour to Boazania. He graduated as the top cadet in the Boazanian Institute of Military Sciences and Warfare, and was selected by Emperor Zambajil to command the Boazanian invasion of Earth.

* When [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Dr. Manhattan]]]] revives [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Eobard Thawne]] in ''ComicBook/TheButton'', he remembers being killed in ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' by Batman/Thomas Wayne -- and immediately goes to brutally attack his son Bruce in retaliation.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': {{Discussed}}, {{inverted}} and {{exploited}} in Chapter 18.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18907975/chapters/44883598 Gold and Sapphire]]'' have [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Giorno Giovanni]] internalize this belief regarding his father [[BigBad DIO]], and believing that the Joestar family would see him and his allies as an enemy because of that, particularity as DIO had nearly killed some of the living members directly (Joseph and Jotaro) or indirectly (Holly and Josuke). Ultimately this is [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when he arrives at the family reunion; the Joestar family not only see him as nothing like his father DIO, but they also see him as a Joestar himself through Jonathan's blood and want to welcome him to their lives.

* {{Inverted}} in the ''Fanfic/{{CONSEQUENCES|MiraculousLadybug}}'' series. Lila's mother is blissfully unaware of her daughter's true nature, but when the truth comes out, she finds herself hit by the fallout, as Lila's crimes inevitably have a negative effect on her career, along with often leaving her open to lawsuits or criminal prosecution.

* Izuku in ''Fanfic/{{Viridescent}}'' suffers from this thanks to his father being the fearsome villain Heat Viper. He spent years suppressing his fire quirk to avoid any reminder, with the only support in his life before All-Might being his mother and the Bakugo family. [[spoiler:When the full power of his quirk and his heritage are revealed during the Sports Festival, the general public treats him as a villain in the making, with a student at UA leaving a hate note at his desk to kill himself as an apology for Heat Viper's victims]].

* {{Downplayed}} example in ''Fanfic/DeadGarden'', with Takeru Haruno forbidding his daughter Sakura from befriending Naruto since he blames Kushina and Minato for failing to keep the Kyuubi from escaping, causing his wife's death and leading his daughter to become the Kyuubi's container. However, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero this ends up preventing the already socially isolated Sakura from avoiding a friendless childhood when she dismisses Naruto's attempts to befriend her]].

** Although most of Tony Stark's enemies are of his own making, Ivan Vanko seeks him out in ''Film/IronMan2'' to exact vengeance for ''Howard'' Stark having ruined his own father's life and by extension his own.

*** In the [[Film/Scream2 second film]], [[spoiler:Mrs. Loomis targets Sidney both to avenge her son and to get back at Maureen Prescott, with whom her husband cheated on her.]]
*** In the [[Film/Scream3 third film]], [[spoiler:Roman Bridger is Maureen's illegitimate son, born before she married Neil Prescott, who felt abandoned by her, driving him to kill her and destroy her legacy.]]
*** In the [[Film/Scream4 fourth film]], [[spoiler:Jill Roberts is Sidney's maternal cousin, the daughter of Maureen's sister Kate.]]

** {{Invoked}} by Alexey as he reveals to Henk [[spoiler:that his father lost his livelihood in the USSR simply for defending a colleague who published a book abroad. Now that he is helping Hank, this is going to happen to him for creating ''Tetris''. This is thankfully averted by the end of the movie when [[BigDamnReunion Alexey migrates with his family to the US with Henk's help]], and the two become TrueCompanions]].

** In ''Literature/NonaTheNinth'' it's revealed the Empire of the Nine Houses [[spoiler: was created by John Gaius to war against the Earth's super-rich, who [[TheElitesJumpShip diverted resources to their escape plan and abandoned the rest of humanity on the dying Earth.]]]] While anger against the people who did it seems justified ([[UnreliableNarrator assuming that's really what happened]]), [[spoiler: John killed everyone else on the planet trying to stop them from escaping and has kept symbolically revenging himself on their descendants for ''ten thousand years''.]]

* A particularly ironic variation happens in Dickens' ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'' where [[spoiler:Dr. Manette was unjustly imprisoned by a pair of twin aristocrats after he went to the police about them raping a peasant girl which caused her death, and killing her husband and brother. He is unfortunately imprisoned in the brutal Bastille, which eats away at his sanity. He writes a journal describing how he got there, but due to amnesia forgets all about it once freed. Later in the book, Charles Darnay, his son-in-law, is put on trial in crazed revolutionary France. When Dr. Manette asked who testified against him, it turns out Darnay...is the son of one of the twins that originally imprisoned Manette, and Darnay's accusers know all about it thanks to the recovery of the doctor's journal. Ultimately, at the end of the journal, he condemns all the posterity of the twins that imprisoned him, saying "I, Alexandre Manette ...denounce to the times when all these things shall be answered for. I denounce them to Heaven and to Earth." Which means he ultimately wound up testifying against his son-in-law because of this trope.]] Also, [[spoiler:Madame Defarge was the sister of the peasant girl who was raped, and wants to kill ''everybody'' in the twins' family for revenge, even Charles Darnay's young daughter.]]

** [[spoiler:Jon himself deals with this issue, as he is the grandson of the Mad King Aerys and the son of Prince Rhaegar, who most of the realm believes kidnapped and raped Lyanna Stark. While there are plenty of Targaryen loyalists that would happily pledge allegiance to him if the truth were to ever come out, there are just as many who would want to kill him for that same reason (as Viserys and Daenerys, Jon's uncle and aunt/lover, can attest to). It was for this reason that his uncle Eddard Stark passed him off as his illegitimate son]].

* Happens in the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS6E11SurpriseParty Suprise Party]]", with a side of LaserGuidedKarma. A man murders his father so he can inherit a house, which hosts partygoers who are eventually revealed to be the vengeful spirits of people his father had burned to death several decades ago. They'd been wanting to return the favor, but since the father is dead, they settle for getting revenge on the son instead. They even reenacted the night of their murder, just to confirm that he deserved to die for his father's crime. The son acted ''exactly'' like his father. This was adapted from the comics, the end panel is page image above.

** Case 2 from the same game: [[spoiler:Roger Retinz was a member of Troupe Gramarye under the stage name of Mr. Reus until he was ousted by the group founder Magnifi over Retinz' reckless and irresponsible attitude toward magic. For years, Retinz nursed a grudge against the troupe. This culminated in the events of the case, where Retinz kills the young man who had agreed to pretend to be him during Trucy's magic show and frames Trucy for the crime. Retinz targeted Trucy, who had nothing to do with his ousting having only being 8 years old at the time, solely because she was the only Gramarye left to take his revenge on since the rest of the troupe are either dead (Magnifi and Zak), missing (Thalassa) or in jail (Valant).]]

*** This also presents in the Samurai job questline: [[spoiler:Hingashi law dictates that a criminal's family and associates are just as culpable in any wrongdoings as the criminal themself. Ugetsu's murders and attempted revolution against the shogunate not only implicated his teacher Musosai, who was sentenced to committing {{Seppuku}} as recompense (but failed to do so and instead escaped to Eorzea under the alias of Kogarashi), but to his family, including his sister Kagetsu (who escaped from Kugane, herself, and took up the name of Makoto).]]

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'': The protagonist is Noctis Lucis Caelum, crown prince of Lucis and 114th in the royal line. The main villain, Ardyn Izunia, seeks to exact revenge on him for the deeds of [[spoiler:''Somnus'' Lucis Caelum, the Founder King, and Ardyn's brother. The two had been seeking to end a scourge that plagued the land through different means, and Somnus was deemed by the gods to be the purer one, whereupon he demonized Ardyn, killed his girlfriend, and chained him up in Angelgard for millennia. Ardyn wants to end Somnus' legacy by killing off his last surviving descendant. He originally went for Noctis' father, Regis, but [[TopGod Bahamut]]'s [[OmniscientMoralityLicense long game to be rid of the Starscourge forever]] involved convincing Ardyn to wait for Noctis first.]]

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Caspar worries about the effect that his father, the Minister of Military Affairs, had as he was a key figure in suppressing uprisings by Dagda and Brigid. He confides his worry to Shamir and Petra, residents of the respective nations. Shamir and Petra both reassure him that they wouldn't think about killing him as revenge for his father's actions. [[spoiler:Petra later admits that she actually had considered it, since Caspar's father killed hers. She relents because she feels her friendship with Caspar is more important]].

* A more or less mistaken example makes up the majority of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys''. The PlayerCharacter of [[AmbiguousSituation (probably)]] just about all of the games is Michael Afton, [[spoiler:the eldest son of William Afton, the killer featured in the lore of the entire franchise. He looks [[StrongFamilyResemblance so much like his father]] that the animatronics mistake him for their killer, and thus turn their desire for revenge on ''him.'' Even his own [[DaddysLittleVillain little sister.]]]]

* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', we see this as part of the Klingon Civil War: [[spoiler: When descending into Klingon Limbo to find the soul of L’rell, the player and others find the soul of Chancellor Gowron. Turns out his ancestor, Aakar, being a backstabbing creep has prevented him from ascending to Sto'vo'kor. They promise to drag him to the afterlife kicking and screaming so they can fix this.]]

** Kingpin also killed [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock's]] father to keep him from spilling the beans about his toxic waste smuggling operation.

** Spectra's nudity curse is also court-ordered not because of anything she did, but because she's the daughter of a pair of murderous bank robbers, and the court assumes she'll follow in their villainous footsteps if allowed to live with her changeling powers hidden.

* ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' deals with this in “Forgive Us Our Trespasses.” After the Jacobite Rebellion and Battle of Culloden, the British punished the Scots by killing as many Scottish male children as they could, saying it would keep them from growing up and fighting. Duncan embarks on his own rampage against British kids and ends up getting confronted on it a couple hundred years later by an immortal named Keane from the British side.

** This is the ultimate reason the Dragonsong War continued for 1000 years. [[spoiler:Ishgard originally started the war, by ambushing and murdering a dragon to claim the strong magic powers housed within a dragon's eyes. Nidhogg, the brother of the murdered dragon, flew into a fit of rage and retaliated along with his brood. Nidhogg continued the war up to the present day (when the Warrior of Light was able to negotiate a truce with the more peaceful/less war-happy dragons of Anyx Trine) and justified it by saying that despite the fact that 1000 years had passed (and the original perpetrators of the crime being long dead), they still will not forget what happened and, to the perspective of much-longer-lived dragons, it may as well have happened yesterday. Nidhogg and his brood also claim that man are forgetful creatures that are doomed to [[HistoryRepeats make the same mistakes as their ancestors]]. It isn't until Nidhogg is defeated for good that the war finally comes to an end and a truce is made.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'': Richie Foley never had his friend visit him because his father was a racist. When Virgil's sister pointed out how often Richie visited them and that Virgil never visited him, Richie had no choice but to schedule a visit and hope his father wasn't around. He wasn't so lucky. Fortunately Virgil didn't hold it against Richie and Mr. Foley eventually changed his mind.

** Played with and mixed with CloningBlues in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny''. Rey Za Burrel goes along with Durandal's Destiny Plan because he believes that he needs to atone for Rau Le Creuset's OmnicidalManiac plans in the previous series. He thinks Rau's crimes are his crimes because both of them are clones of the same man. When Kira finally meets him, he manages to convince Rey that [[ClonesArePeopleToo Rau's sins were his own and that Rey can make his own choices]]. [[spoiler:Rey ultimately shoots Durandal to save Kira]] when he realizes that he doesn't really agree with the Destiny Plan after taking some time to actually think about it as a person rather than as Rau 2.0.

* {{Inverted}} in the ''Fanfic/{{CONSEQUENCES|MiraculousLadybug}}'' series. Lila's mother is blissfully unaware of her daughter's true nature, but when the truth comes out, she finds herself hit by the fallout, as Lila's crimes inevitably have a negative effect on her career, along with often leaving her open to lawsuits or criminal prosecution.

** ''Fanfic/HeroChat'': Variant regarding the daughter of Specter, an infamous Main/{{Necromancer}} supervillain. One of Lila's lies involved Specter's daughter working with him and currently plotting a return with her own army of the undead. According to [[spoiler:Rose]], the real truth was that his daughter was on the opposite moral spectrum, and haven't spoken with her father in the years since. She knows this because Specter's daughter [[spoiler:is ''Rose's mother'']]. Team Miraculous, while initially shocked by TheReveal, reassures [[spoiler:Rose]] that they don't hold her heritage against her. However, the fear of this trope harming her family leads to Specter's daughter being akumatized.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18907975/chapters/44883598 Gold and Sapphire]]'' have [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Giorno Giovanni]] internalize this belief regarding his father [[BigBad DIO]], and believing that the [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Joestar family]] would see him and his allies as an enemy because of that, particularity as DIO had nearly killed some of the living members directly (Joseph and Jotaro) or indirectly (Holly and Josuke). Ultimately this is [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when he arrives at the family reunion; the Joestar family not only see him as nothing like his father DIO, but they also see him as a Joestar himself through Jonathan's blood and want to welcome him to their lives.

** In ''Webcomic/BakeryEnemies'', Adrien's life was ruined after his father was exposed as Hawk Moth. His fortune was lost to reparations, he had trouble finding legitimate employment before being taken in by the Dupain-Chengs, and even now he's still seen as nothing more than Hawk Moth's son.
** ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'': Adrien's KarmaHoudiniWarranty gets damaged after [[TheUnmasking his father is exposed as Hawkmoth]], with people protesting outside the Agreste Manor and regarding him with increased suspicion. This is only made worse by [[ManipulativeBitch Lila]] painting herself as an UnwittingPawn to ''both'' Agrestes so that Adrien's efforts to [[CassandraTruth expose her]] come off as trying to throw her under the bus.
** RecursiveFanfiction ''Fanfic/{{What Goes Around Comes Around|MiraculousLadybug}}'' has Amelie point out this problem to her nephew, citing it as one of the reasons why she wants to [[spoiler:take Adrien out of Paris]].
** ''Fanfic/TruthAndConsequences'': Marinette fears this will happen to Adrien if Hawkmoth's SecretIdentity as Gabriel Agreste is revealed to the world (not to mention the thousands of employees that would potentially be left jobless). Gabriel uses that fear to talk her into a DealWithTheDevil, resulting in the main plot, and the beginning of her SlowlySlippingIntoEvil.

* In ''[[Fanfic/UltimateSleepwalker Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams]]'', the murderous Shiver Man is the ghost of a man trying to murder the descendants of the men who murdered him and stole his lands. He doesn't start out having a grudge against Sleepwalker, but when Sleepy interferes with his killing spree he extends his grudge to the alien.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'':
** Nathaniel Howe is attempting to atone for his father Arl Rendon Howe's sins. A disturbingly high amount of players opt to have him killed in retaliation for his father's crimes despite the fact that Nathaniel hasn't seen his father since he was a child. Back in Origins, the Warden can promise to exterminate Arl Howe's family for his crimes on confronting him near the end of the game, which Howe brushes off at the time.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
** Comes into play in the "Nature Of The Beast" quest: [[spoiler:The werewolves' ancestors were human barbarians who were responsible for raping and killing Zathrian's children, so he set upon them a werewolf curse that continued down upon their descendants. One of the ways to convince Zathrian to break the curse is to show him how his actions are hurting victims innocent of the original crime]].
** Casteless dwarves are known as "criminals and the children of criminals" -- in dwarven society, people can be stripped of their social rank and barred from all legitimate occupations for committing crimes, and their descendants will be likewise cast out of society. It goes way over the time in terms of punishment when you realize that casteless dwarves have literally ''no way'' to join or re-join a caste. The only way for a casteless family to change this is if a casteless has a child with a dwarf with a caste and the child is the same gender as the parent with a caste. Dwarven children inherit the caste of the parent with the same gender (a son will inherit his father's caste while a daughter will inherit her mother's). The casteless parent is still casteless, but his or her child and their future children will not. [[spoiler:Aiding the EvilPrince Bhelen during the KingmakerScenario allows for this to change for the better]].

** {{Inverted}} in the ''Fanfic/{{CONSEQUENCES|MiraculousLadybug}}'' series. Lila's mother is blissfully unaware of her daughter's true nature, but when the truth comes out, she finds herself hit by the fallout, as Lila's crimes inevitably have a negative effect on her career, along with often leaving her open to lawsuits or criminal prosecution.
** ''Fanfic/HeroChat'': Variant regarding the daughter of Specter, an infamous Main/{{Necromancer}} supervillain. One of Lila's lies involved Specter's daughter working with him and currently plotting a return with her own army of the undead. According to [[spoiler:Rose]], the real truth was that his daughter was on the opposite moral spectrum, and haven't spoken with her father in the years since. She knows this because Specter's daughter [[spoiler:is ''Rose's mother'']]. Team Miraculous, while initially shocked by TheReveal, reassures [[spoiler:Rose]] that they don't hold her heritage against her. However, the fear of this trope harming her family leads to Specter's daughter being akumatized.

** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'': Prospera openly tells Miorine that she sees her as being the bloodstained daughter of the target of her vengeance despite Miorine being a teenage girl who wasn't even born yet when the father she dislikes massacred Prospera's family.

* In "Break the Door of Hell", one of the ''Literature/TheTravellerInBlack'' stories, Bardolus resurrects his dead mother, who tricks him into exposing himself to the same manic-depression-inducing drug she'd use to manipulate his father and drive the man to suicide. Apparently, that wasn't enough revenge for the father having forced himself on her: by ''her'' reckoning, their ChildByRape deserves the same self-destructive fate, even though nothing indicates that Bardolus ever deliberately harmed or offended her.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': This is the ultimate reason the Dragonsong War continued for 1000 years. [[spoiler:Ishgard originally started the war, by ambushing and murdering a dragon to claim the strong magic powers housed within a dragon's eyes. Nidhogg, the brother of the murdered dragon, flew into a fit of rage and retaliated along with his brood. Nidhogg continued the war up to the present day (when the Warrior of Light was able to negotiate a truce with the more peaceful/less war-happy dragons of Anyx Trine) and justified it by saying that despite the fact that 1000 years had passed (and the original perpetrators of the crime being long dead), they still will not forget what happened and, to the perspective of much-longer-lived dragons, it may as well have happened yesterday. Nidhogg and his brood also claim that man are forgetful creatures that are doomed to [[HistoryRepeats make the same mistakes as their ancestors]]. It isn't until Nidhogg is defeated for good that the war finally comes to an end and a truce is made.]]