Talk:Monster Girl Quest: Paradox/@comment-30489421-20170331092535/@comment-29895188-20170331133949

Not necessarily. You see her soften up throughout the game. Setting aside her not minding seeing monsters in cities anymore, since she can still just destroy them after returning to her full power, she stops caring about the spread of makina throughout the world and seems to be willing to let these advances remain instead of just harboring thoughts of wiping out anyone who would continue using them and forcing everyone to regress (like when you return to Luka's village and talk to that NPC who's complaining about the spread of makina; Ilias simply accepts that it's too late to do anything about it).

We also see her soft spot for humans come to the fore a number of times in the game, most notably in Luddite Village where she's angered by the people there and tries to shield Luka from knowing about the darker things going on (particularly, the village's habit of "sharing" women). Then there's her coming upon a girl in the Sabasa church praying for the war to end and Ilias vowing to bring peace back as soon as she can, or her wishing to accept the mermaids' rescue request on the sole basis of saving the human sailors, saying that they can't just leave them to their fate.

Although Ilias intended to destroy humanity in the original MGQ, her character's being molded out here as her genuinely caring for humanity, so one can say that the reason why she acted the way she did in the original trilogy was because she truly did lose faith in humanity, perhaps thinking they were abandoning her in favor of the monsters.

Considering the description of some of the Six Ancestors, such as Kanon who was apparently the cruelest of them all and enjoyed digesting men, perhaps she really did think that she knew what was best for humanity by setting a barrier between them and monsterkind? I mean, we even see with the Lilith sisters how casually they take human life.

I'm not saying Ilias wasn't a bad goddess; she was selfish, possessive, and very controlling of all those under her. But even the original MGQ portrayed her in a sympathetic light, showing her as someone who was simply lonely and desperate for affection, and how Dark God Alice's existence was literally harmful to her own. Paradox seems to be her chance at redemption, by bringing her down and closer to humanity. And, well, like I said; Ilias does have a special spot for Luka in her heart.