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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 4719393" data-attributes="member: 3424">I vote for evil.First off, assuming that V was motivated by a desire to keep his family safe, could he have achieved the same objective without killing so many creatures? With all the magical power at his fingertips, I'm fairly sure that he could have. At the very least, he could have teleported his mate and children to Hinjo and Durkon, who would be able to afford them some degree of protection. The fact that this action was his first resort is one strike against him.Next, I am not so sure that his motives were that pure in the first place. Even if he felt it was necessary to kill all black dragons in the world, why did he animate the dead dragon and tell her what he was about to do first? Unless that was a necessary element of the spell, that would imply he was motivated more by revenge and the need to make the dragon suffer mentally instead of simply wanting to keep his family safe. That's a second strike against him.Of course, none of the above matters if you accept that killing every single black dragon in the world, including children and eggs, is not an evil act. I personally think that it is at the very least unjust to kill a creature simply because it is likely to commit evil, and the scale and extent of the killing pushes it into definitely evil territory for me. That's strike three against V.Quite frankly, I am now waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm fairly sure that you don't use a spell named familicide without some kind of karmic backlash. Or, given that it's an epic spell, some literal backlash, and not necessarily against the caster.</blockquote>

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