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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Viren views himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist needed to protect humanity from Xadia, but its shown that behind every one of his noble excuses is a selfish motivation. His desires to help others is warped by how much dark magic has [[EvilCannotComprehendGood dampened him to their feelings]] causing him to crave [[IJustWantToBeSpecial respect and love]] without knowing how to get any beyond performing grand deeds which always [[CuttingTheKnot prioritize expediency]] over ethics or [[DidntThinkThisThrough consequence]], which renders Viren is so driven to achieve his aims that he even tries to push his own children into helping him gain more power, so he may become a "saviour" of mankind, causing them to either [[HeelFaceTurn turn against him]], or [[EvilerThanThou turn out even worse]].

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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Viren views himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist needed to protect humanity from Xadia, but its shown that behind every one of his noble excuses is a selfish motivation. His desires to help others is warped by how much dark magic has [[EvilCannotComprehendGood dampened him to their feelings]] causing him to crave [[IJustWantToBeSpecial respect and love]] without knowing how to get any beyond performing grand deeds which always [[CuttingTheKnot prioritize expediency]] over ethics or [[DidntThinkThisThrough consequence]], which renders Viren is so driven to achieve his aims that he even tries to push his own children into helping him gain more power, so he may become a "saviour" of mankind, causing them to either [[HeelFaceTurn turn against him]], or [[EvilerThanThou turn out even worse]].
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Viren views himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist needed to protect humanity from Xadia, but its shown that behind every one of his noble excuses is a selfish motivation. His desires to help others is warped by how much dark magic has [[EvilCannotComprehendGood dampened him to their feelings]] causing him to crave [[IJustWantToBeSpecial respect and love]] without knowing how to get any beyond performing grand deeds which always [[CuttingTheKnot prioritize expediency]] over ethics or [[DidntThinkThisThrough consequence]], and is so driven to achieve his aims that Viren even tries to push his own children into helping him gain more power, so he may become a "saviour" of mankind, causing them to either [[HeelFaceTurn turn on him]], or [[EvilerThanThou turn out even worse.]]

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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Viren views himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist needed to protect humanity from Xadia, but its shown that behind every one of his noble excuses is a selfish motivation. His desires to help others is warped by how much dark magic has [[EvilCannotComprehendGood dampened him to their feelings]] causing him to crave [[IJustWantToBeSpecial respect and love]] without knowing how to get any beyond performing grand deeds which always [[CuttingTheKnot prioritize expediency]] over ethics or [[DidntThinkThisThrough consequence]], and which renders Viren is so driven to achieve his aims that Viren he even tries to push his own children into helping him gain more power, so he may become a "saviour" of mankind, causing them to either [[HeelFaceTurn turn on against him]], or [[EvilerThanThou turn out even worse.]] worse]].
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Viren views himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist needed to protect humanity from Xadia, but its shown that behind every one of his noble excuses is a selfish motivation. His desires to help others is warped by how much dark magic has [[EvilCannotComprehendGood dampened him to their feelings]] causing him to crave [[IJustWantToBeSpecial respect and love]] without knowing how to get any beyond performing grand deeds, and is so driven to achieve his aims that Viren even tries to push his own children into helping him gain more power, so he may become a "saviour" of mankind, causing them to either[[HeelFaceTurn turn on him]], or [[EvilerThanThou turn out even worse.]]

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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Viren views himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist needed to protect humanity from Xadia, but its shown that behind every one of his noble excuses is a selfish motivation. His desires to help others is warped by how much dark magic has [[EvilCannotComprehendGood dampened him to their feelings]] causing him to crave [[IJustWantToBeSpecial respect and love]] without knowing how to get any beyond performing grand deeds, deeds which always [[CuttingTheKnot prioritize expediency]] over ethics or [[DidntThinkThisThrough consequence]], and is so driven to achieve his aims that Viren even tries to push his own children into helping him gain more power, so he may become a "saviour" of mankind, causing them to either[[HeelFaceTurn either [[HeelFaceTurn turn on him]], or [[EvilerThanThou turn out even worse.]]
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* DeconstructiveCharacterArchetype: Viren views himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist, but its shown that behind every one of his noble excuses is a selfish motivation. His desires to help others is warped by how much dark magic has [[EvilCannotComprehendGood dampened him to their feelings]] causing him to crave [[IJustWantToBeSpecial respect and love]] without knowing how to get any beyond performing deeds, and is so driven to achieve his aims that he tries to push his own children into helping him gain more power, so he may become a "saviour" of mankind, causing them to either[[HeelFaceTurn turn on him]], or [[EvilerThanThou turn out even worse.]]

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* DeconstructiveCharacterArchetype: DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Viren views himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist, WellIntentionedExtremist needed to protect humanity from Xadia, but its shown that behind every one of his noble excuses is a selfish motivation. His desires to help others is warped by how much dark magic has [[EvilCannotComprehendGood dampened him to their feelings]] causing him to crave [[IJustWantToBeSpecial respect and love]] without knowing how to get any beyond performing grand deeds, and is so driven to achieve his aims that he Viren even tries to push his own children into helping him gain more power, so he may become a "saviour" of mankind, causing them to either[[HeelFaceTurn turn on him]], or [[EvilerThanThou turn out even worse.]]

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* DeconstructiveCharacterArchetype: Viren views himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist, but its shown that behind every one of his noble excuses is a selfish motivation. His desires to help others is warped by how much dark magic has [[EvilCannotComprehendGood dampened him to their feelings]] causing him to crave [[IJustWantToBeSpecial respect and love]] without knowing how to get any beyond performing deeds, and is so driven to achieve his aims that he tries to push his own children into helping him gain more power, so he may become a "saviour" of mankind, causing them to either[[HeelFaceTurn turn on him]], or [[EvilerThanThou turn out even worse.]]



** Then in season 5 after he recognizes his faults and that Claudia has became a sociopathic copy of himself, Viren accepts he deserve to die for all his lies and betrayals, and the terrible things that resulted from them, and he goes off to die alone in the forest in the hope that Claudia doesn't find him and repeats his mistakes.

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** Then in season 5 after he recognizes his faults and that Claudia has became a sociopathic copy of himself, Viren accepts he deserve deserves to die for all his lies and betrayals, and the terrible things that resulted from them, and he goes before walking off to die alone in the forest in the hope that Claudia doesn't find him and repeats his mistakes.
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* GreenEyedMonster: When Callum confronts him about stealing the egg, he rants at the boy, saying he was given everything and that it made him weak. Given that it's later revealed Viren came from a humble background this rant implies that Viren [[HiddenDisdainReveal secretly resented]] Callum for being AdoptedIntoRoyalty.

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* GreenEyedMonster: When Callum confronts him about stealing the egg, he Viren rants at the boy, saying he Callum was given everything and that it made him weak. Given that it's later revealed Viren came from a humble background background, this rant implies that Viren he [[HiddenDisdainReveal secretly resented]] Callum for being AdoptedIntoRoyalty.
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** Hypocrisy. The main reason half of the Katolis army turned against him, they realized he only cared for his own [[IJustWantToBeSpecial image]], despite his claims of caring for their future, he was quickly convinced to conquer Xadia despite saying he didn't want to, all to keep on denying his mistakes and prove he was always right evan as his actions grew ever more unjustifiable.

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** Hypocrisy. The main reason half of the Katolis army turned against him, they realized he only cared for his own [[IJustWantToBeSpecial image]], despite his claims of caring for their future, he was quickly convinced to conquer Xadia despite saying he didn't want to, all to keep on denying his mistakes and prove he was always right evan even as his actions grew ever more unjustifiable.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Viren delivers a scathing one to himself. While trying to decipher the mystery of the mirror, Viren uses a TrueSight spell that will "strip away all illusions" and allow him to see the truth. He looks in the mirror and only sees his reflection, leading him to rant that the mirror is powerless and useless and that he thought it would be something important. The whole time he is pointing at himself (his reflection), showing how Viren really views himself: as nothing special or powerful.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: TheReasonISuckSpeech: Viren delivers a scathing one to himself. While trying to decipher the mystery of the mirror, Viren uses a TrueSight spell that will "strip away all illusions" and allow him to see the truth. He looks in the mirror and only sees his reflection, leading him to rant that the mirror is powerless and useless and that he thought it would be something important. The whole time he is pointing at himself (his reflection), showing how Viren really views himself: as nothing special or powerful.
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** Then in season 5 when he realized is all his fault things got worse and that Claudia became a sociopathic copy of himself with all his worst traits, Viren accepted he deserved to die for all his lies, betrayals, war crimes and mass murders, he went to die alone in the forest in hopes Claudia doesn't find him and she stop using dark magic and doing his mistakes.

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** Then in season 5 when after he realized is all recognizes his fault things got worse faults and that Claudia has became a sociopathic copy of himself with all his worst traits, himself, Viren accepted accepts he deserved deserve to die for all his lies, lies and betrayals, war crimes and mass murders, the terrible things that resulted from them, and he went goes off to die alone in the forest in hopes the hope that Claudia doesn't find him and she stop using dark magic and doing repeats his mistakes.
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* GreenEyedMonster: When Callum confronts him about stealing the egg, he rants at the boy, saying he was given everything and that it made him weak. Given we later learn that Viren came from a humble background it gives this interaction the perspective that Viren [[HiddenDisdainReveal resented]] Callum for being AdoptedIntoRoyalty.

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* GreenEyedMonster: When Callum confronts him about stealing the egg, he rants at the boy, saying he was given everything and that it made him weak. Given we that it's later learn that revealed Viren came from a humble background it gives this interaction the perspective rant implies that Viren [[HiddenDisdainReveal secretly resented]] Callum for being AdoptedIntoRoyalty.



** Then subjected when he reflected this is all his fault.
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life and realizes that everything that went wrong came from his desire to gain power and worth no matter what he had to do to get it.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: From his tirade against his own reflection, and his constant need to prove his own value to other people, Viren very much wants to be a person of importance but his [[DetrimentalDetermination single-minded methods]] always [[DidntThinkThisThrough backfire]] on him.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: For all of Viren's talk about wanting to protect humanity, all Viren truly wanted was power to himself, with Viren later admiting so after being revived in Season 4.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: For all of Viren's his talk about wanting to protect humanity, all Viren truly wanted was power to himself, with Viren later admiting so after being revived in Season 4.
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* AmbiguousSituation: After Harrow's death, Amaya speculates that Viren proposed the body-switching solution knowing that Harrow would be too noble to accept it, as a way of ensuring that his king would die in a way that would allow Viren to save face, and conveniently leave the throne empty for Viren to grab. (Either as a regent while Ezran is too young to lead, or to get the princes "out of the way" for him to seize power.)

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* AmbiguousSituation: After Harrow's death, Amaya speculates that Viren proposed the body-switching solution knowing that Harrow would be too noble to accept it, as a way of ensuring that his king would die in a way that would allow Viren to save face, and conveniently leave the throne empty for Viren to grab. (Either as a regent while Ezran is too young to lead, or to get the princes "out of the way" for him to seize power.) power).



* BlackEyesOfEvil: After using dark magic, his eyes become completely black, with his iris becoming white. Different from [[TokenGoodTeammate his daughter]], this is played straight, as he is the only villain of the show.

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* BlackEyesOfEvil: After using dark magic, his eyes become completely black, with his iris becoming white. Different from [[TokenGoodTeammate his daughter]], this is played straight, as he is the only villain of the show.show until Aaravos comes along.



** Delusion, he used the suffering of humanity as a blanket excuse to commit war crimes, conspiracy and mass murder, convincing himself he was acting as humanity's savior. Upon his resurrection he begins to reflect on all he had done in his quest to "protect humanity" and realized it was a self-made lie to deny his missteps and that, in fact, his actions damaged mankind more than Xadia ever did

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** Delusion, he used the suffering of humanity as a blanket excuse to commit war crimes, conspiracy and mass murder, convincing himself he was acting as humanity's savior. Upon his resurrection he begins to reflect on all he had done in his quest to "protect humanity" and realized it was a self-made lie to deny his missteps and that, in fact, his actions damaged mankind more than Xadia ever diddid.



** Then in season 5 when he realized is all his fault things got worse and that Claudia became a psychopathic copy of himself with all his worst traits, Viren accepted he deserved to die for all his lies, betrayals, war crimes and mass murders, he went to die alone in the forest in hopes Claudia doesn't find him and she stop using dark magic and doing his mistakes

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** Then in season 5 when he realized is all his fault things got worse and that Claudia became a psychopathic sociopathic copy of himself with all his worst traits, Viren accepted he deserved to die for all his lies, betrayals, war crimes and mass murders, he went to die alone in the forest in hopes Claudia doesn't find him and she stop using dark magic and doing his mistakesmistakes.



** Then in season 5 he realized he isn't the selfless saint he thought he was, he was using the war and suffering of humanity as an excuse to kill innocents, poach all the magic creatures he wants and deny is his fault things got worse

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** Then in season 5 he realized he isn't the selfless saint he thought he was, he was using the war and suffering of humanity as an excuse to kill innocents, poach all the magic creatures he wants and deny is his fault things got worseworse.



** While he claims that everything he does is to protect humanity, no matter how dangerous, vile and evil, and he claims that he is a pragmatist willing to take hard choices for the greater good, in Season 5 he knows now he was just a greedy, bloodthirsty, jingoistic and uncaring idiot making bad excuses to deny is his fault many innocents died
** In the early seasons he was willing to sacrifice his son for his goals of killing the princes of Katolis preventing the egg from returning to Xadia, but later he affirms he would never sacrifice his children when Aaravos told him he needs the blood of his child to make his resurrection permanent, it's when he refuses to kill Sparklepuff that Viren realizes he was a hypocrite regarding everything he said about protecting mankind.

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** While he claims that everything he does is to protect humanity, no matter how dangerous, vile and evil, and he claims that he is a pragmatist willing to take hard choices for the greater good, in Season 5 he knows now he was just a greedy, bloodthirsty, jingoistic and uncaring idiot making bad excuses to deny is his fault many innocents died
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** In the early seasons he was willing to sacrifice his son for his goals of killing the princes of Katolis preventing the egg from returning to Xadia, but later he affirms he would never sacrifice his children when Aaravos told him he needs the blood of his child to make his resurrection permanent, it's when he refuses to kill Sparklepuff that Viren realizes he was a hypocrite regarding everything he said about protecting mankind.humankind.



** Then subjected when he reflected this is all his fault

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Downplayed, but Viren seems to be under the impression that humanity can only flourish so long as ''he's'' the one making the decisions for humanity.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Downplayed, but For all of Viren's talk about wanting to protect humanity, all Viren seems truly wanted was power to be under the impression that humanity can only flourish himself, with Viren later admiting so long as ''he's'' the one making the decisions for humanity.after being revived in Season 4.
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** Self-inflicted in season 5. [[spoiler: After Claudia brought him back to life last season, he began soul-searching about his actions and use of dark magic, ultimately realizing he went too far and that he risks dragging Claudia and Soren down with him, so he refuses to help Aaravaos escape prison and allows the resurrection spell to expire naturally.]]

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** Self-inflicted in season 5. [[spoiler: After Claudia brought him back to life last season, he began soul-searching about his actions and use of dark magic, ultimately realizing he went too far and that he risks dragging Claudia and Soren down with him, so he refuses to help Aaravaos Aaravos escape prison and allows the resurrection spell to expire naturally.]]
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* PurpleIsPowerful: His [[GlowingEyesOfDoom eyes gain a purple glow]] whenever he uses Dark Magic, which typically displays just ''why'' he has the position of [[TheArchmage high mage]] of Katolis.
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* SnowballingThreat: Viren's accumulation of power amounts to this, and is directly called out as such by Soren.
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** Delusion, he used the suffering of humanity as a blanket excuse to commit war crimes, concspiracy and mass murder, convincing himself he was humanity's savior. Upon his resurrection he begins to reflect on all he had done in his quest to "protect humanity" and realized it was a self-made lie to deny his mistakes and in fact his actions damaged humanity more than Xadia ever did

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** Delusion, he used the suffering of humanity as a blanket excuse to commit war crimes, concspiracy conspiracy and mass murder, convincing himself he was acting as humanity's savior. Upon his resurrection he begins to reflect on all he had done in his quest to "protect humanity" and realized it was a self-made lie to deny his mistakes missteps and that, in fact fact, his actions damaged humanity mankind more than Xadia ever did
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** Said desire feeds into his second FatalFlaw - DidntThinkThisThrough. Viren rarely - if ever - considers the consequences of said "solutions," which leads to them eventually causing more problems than they solve. After season 5 he is forced to comfront the consequences when Claudia is acting in his worst traits and he likely knows now he is a wanted criminal with a deadly target on his back.
** Hubris. He believes himself to be the one with the most knowledge (which, to be fair, he is unless confronted to someone like Aaravos) and the best plans, which makes him unable to consider different points of view and underestimate others. This is an actual FatalFlaw, since his dismissal of Rayla and Bait leads to his ''death''. Lucky for him, Claudia apparently had a way to bring him back.
** Greed. Before Viren was resurrected, he never had mercy for any magic creatures, it seems he couldn't care less for the extinction of other species as long as humans thrive, he saw elves, dragons and wildlife as livestock
** Delusions, he used the suffering of humanity as an excuse to commit war crimes, genocide and mass murder to keep on believing he was humanity's savior. Upon his resurrection he started to reflect on all he had done in his quest to "protect humanity" and realized it was a self-made lie to deny his mistakes and in fact he had damaged humanity more than Xadia ever did
** Hypocrisy. The main reason half of humanity turned against him, they realized he only care for his image, despite his claims about caring for their future, he was quickly convinced to conquer Xadia despite saying he didn't want to, all to keep on denying his mistakes and prove he was always right as his actions grew more unjustifiable. Even if he really hadn't wanted to conquer Xadia and truly sought peace afterwards, the remaining Xadians would likely retaliate against mankind in revenge for him destroying Lux Aurea and his attempts to kill the dragon royal family, as would the Human Kingdoms as well if they ever discovered it was him who had their rulers killed.

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** Said desire feeds into his second FatalFlaw - DidntThinkThisThrough. Viren rarely - if ever - considers the consequences of said "solutions," which leads to them eventually causing more problems than they solve. After season 5 he is forced to comfront the these consequences when his daughter Claudia is acting in begins to emulate his worst worse traits and he likely knows now he is a wanted criminal with a deadly target on his back.
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** Hubris. He believes himself to be the one with the most knowledge (which, to be fair, he is unless confronted to someone like was until he met Aaravos) and the best plans, which makes him unable to consider different points of view and underestimate others. This is an actual FatalFlaw, since his dismissal of Rayla and Bait leads to his ''death''. Lucky for him, Claudia apparently had a way to bring him back.
** Greed. Before Viren was resurrected, he never had mercy held any pity for any magic magical creatures, it seems he couldn't care less for the extinction risk of driving other species to extinction, as other dark mages had done before, meant little to him so long as humans thrive, he saw elves, dragons and wildlife as livestock
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** Delusions, Delusion, he used the suffering of humanity as an a blanket excuse to commit war crimes, genocide concspiracy and mass murder to keep on believing murder, convincing himself he was humanity's savior. Upon his resurrection he started begins to reflect on all he had done in his quest to "protect humanity" and realized it was a self-made lie to deny his mistakes and in fact he had his actions damaged humanity more than Xadia ever did
** Hypocrisy. The main reason half of humanity the Katolis army turned against him, they realized he only care cared for his image, own [[IJustWantToBeSpecial image]], despite his claims about of caring for their future, he was quickly convinced to conquer Xadia despite saying he didn't want to, all to keep on denying his mistakes and prove he was always right evan as his actions grew ever more unjustifiable. Even if he really hadn't wanted to conquer Xadia and truly sought peace afterwards, the remaining Xadians would likely retaliate against mankind in revenge for him destroying Lux Aurea and his attempts to kill the dragon royal family, as would the Human Kingdoms as well if they ever discovered it was him who had their rulers killed.unjustifiable.
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** Delusions, he used the suffering of humanity as an excuse to commit war crimes, genocide and mass murder to keep on believing he was correct in his believing he was humanity's savior. Upon his resurrection he started to reflect on all he had done in his quest to "protect humanity" and realized it was a self-made lie to deny his mistakes and in fact he had damaged humanity more than Xadia ever did

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** Delusions, he used the suffering of humanity as an excuse to commit war crimes, genocide and mass murder to keep on believing he was correct in his believing he was humanity's savior. Upon his resurrection he started to reflect on all he had done in his quest to "protect humanity" and realized it was a self-made lie to deny his mistakes and in fact he had damaged humanity more than Xadia ever did
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** Hypocrisy. The main reason half of humanity turned against him, they realized he didn't actually care about anything but his image, despite his claims about caring for their future, he was quickly convinced to conquer Xadia despite saying he didn't want to, all to keep on denying his mistakes and prove he was always right as his actions grew more unjustifiable. Even if he really hadn't wanted to conquer Xadia and truly sought peace afterwards, the remaining Xadians would likely retaliate against mankind in revenge for him destroying Lux Aurea and his attempts to kill the dragon royal family, as would the Human Kingdoms as well if they ever discovered it was him who had their rulers killed.

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** Hypocrisy. The main reason half of humanity turned against him, they realized he didn't actually only care about anything but for his image, despite his claims about caring for their future, he was quickly convinced to conquer Xadia despite saying he didn't want to, all to keep on denying his mistakes and prove he was always right as his actions grew more unjustifiable. Even if he really hadn't wanted to conquer Xadia and truly sought peace afterwards, the remaining Xadians would likely retaliate against mankind in revenge for him destroying Lux Aurea and his attempts to kill the dragon royal family, as would the Human Kingdoms as well if they ever discovered it was him who had their rulers killed.
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** Then subjected when he reflected this is all his fault
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** While he claims that everything he does is to protect humanity, no matter how danngerous, vile and evil, and he claims that he is a pragmatist and willing to take hard choices for the greater good, now in Season 5 he knows he was just making bad excuses to deny he had bloodlust, greed, jingoism, apathy and he wanted to deny is his fault many innocents died

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** While he claims that everything he does is to protect humanity, no matter how danngerous, dangerous, vile and evil, and he claims that he is a pragmatist and willing to take hard choices for the greater good, now in Season 5 he knows now he was just a greedy, bloodthirsty, jingoistic and uncaring idiot making bad excuses to deny he had bloodlust, greed, jingoism, apathy and he wanted to deny is his fault many innocents died

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