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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2926725" data-attributes="member: 707">Kai Wynn had two powerful motivations when she was introduced.  Her desire for power, and her belief in the Prophets.  Both were present from the very beginning, and both helped motivate her to commit her first villainy, the assassination of Vedik Borial.  She truly did believe he was the wrong man to become Kai.  She felt at that point that Sisko was not the Emissary, and that allying Bajor with the Federation was a poor move.  She truly did believe she was the right woman for the job.  And her hunger for power pushed her into acting on those beliefs to a villainous extreme.As the series progresses, however, we see her conviction that Sisko is not the Emissary challenged again and again until, finally, she is forced to accept that he is indeed the Emissary (when Sisko reveals the location of a lost Bajoran holy site.)  Here she starts to become lost.  If Sisko is indeed the Emissary, then she's been working against the Prophets' wishes all this time.  Until this point, she's always seen herself as the heroine, as a champion of her people, protecting them against a false prophet.  Now, she is faced with the terrible idea that she has been leading her people away from the Prophets' path.  That she is the false prophet, the anathema she's been battling all this time.Enter the Pah Wraiths.  They play on all of her weaknesses.  They offer her another explanation.  That the Prophets were never Bajor's true gods in the first place.  That it is the Prophets who are evil, and the Pah Wraiths who love and nurture Bajor.  And they want her to be their confidante.In a stroke they offer her a way to view her life, not as a betrayal of all she holds dear, but once again as a righteous path taken against unjust opposition.  Even though she didn't know it at the time, she had always been acting in Bajor's best interests, because although Sisko might be the true Emissary, he is the Emissary of false gods.  And that makes everything she's done to oppose him right.  On top of that, the Wraiths offer her a place of importance again.It's a terrible trial.  A stronger woman might have seen through the lies, might have recognized the devil's bargain the Pah Wraiths held out to her, and rejected the false justification.  Unfortunately for her, Wynn was never good at piercing self-delusions.  She wanted to believe what the Wraiths were saying, and so she did.Only at the very end did she really accept the truth.  Only then did she recognize what she had been and done.  And she did try to make it right, for what that's worth.</blockquote>

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