Talk:Monster Girl Quest: Paradox/@comment-30489421-20170331092535/@comment-29895188-20170401155334

Do take note that Alice was still ambivalent on human-monster relations early on in MGQ and it was through travelling with Luka that she finally decided to try and do the peace thing. Otherwise, if you just abandoned her at the beginning, she decides to become completely antagonistic to humans.

And that's the thing. The monsters aren't really innocent here. She genocided the monsters? Another way to say that is she was humanity's protector. Look at the Harpy Queen's storyline, with the harpies talking about how the previous queen was much more war-like. MGQ was us looking for co-existence. The crimes of those in the past don't matter compared to the desire for peace of those in the present.

Paradox seems to intend to dip into the monsters' ruthless past, going by the Six Ancestors' descriptions, Black Alice's cadre of ancient monsters, and the Lilith sisters.

And while Ilias' rules may seem totalitarian now, another way to look at it is that the times simply changed. Stricter rules are obviously needed in the beginning, when society is in its infancy and people lack knowledge. It's just that as people grow as a whole, the laws that govern society need to advance with them. Ilias was simply slow to change; a relic. That she couldn't learn and grow in MGQ was her failing, and her story in Paradox is her learning this lesson.