Best not to be antagonistic towards them right at the start because that would make you look suspicious, but you also can’t act perfectly genial because that would also look suspicious
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Boooo, I am antagonism incarnate!!!
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I prefer pragmatism above all things
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Why not be pragmatically antagonistic??
Aren’t you one untamed trove of marvelous ideas. Do share more, my mind is running wild imagining them all, too bad it can’t create new ones even if my life was at the stake
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That is not correct, the Earthworm still heavily drains the mc and the other parasites still limit how useful it is and still cause stress to the mc’s fragile mana ducts, even when they provide no useful advantages.
Like the others it is also still not very compatible with the mc. The difference is one of degree and while its negatives are less than the other one the mc can use it is by no means side effect free, like Yu seems to be.
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HA!
OH! I never noticed, maybe cause there haven’t been many chances to use it yet, other then the tomb. But thank you for the correction.
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I’ve seen this line of argument come up a few times before, but I feel like it leaves out some very important context influencing Leomar’s decision regarding the baron. Critically, Leon knows that actually poisoning the Arcadians was never the baron’s intention, and that he took steps that he believed had rendered the amulet inert before placing it as his father instructed in order to secure his inheritance and cut out his drunken uncle.
While this little scheme was no doubt laced with self-interest, had it worked, it would have ensured that the unbroken line of racist incompetents that had lorded over the Arcadians in his lands would finally end, and a new page could be opened in the history of his barony. We can also see that, for a time, it went exactly as the baron claims he wanted it to; the curse never manifested, the Arcadians enjoyed a lord who sought to protect their interests, and the town they lived in was beginning to enjoy an unprecedented era of prosperity.
While it eventually backfired quite horrendously, the baron never meant to act maliciously towards those he ruled over. For a lot of people, that probably doesn’t matter much at all, but for a man like Leomar I would imagine that the intent behind his actions would be very important when it comes to meting out justice. Whether you think that’s good or bad is another matter, but I do think Leon’s thought process is a lot deeper and a lot more defensible than simple indifference when it comes to dead Arcadians versus concern for dead Parami’s.
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yeah i think public pressure makes the most sense for his character. i agree with all of your points. but yeah, how hard is it to fake an execution? lol
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Especially in a world with magic! Should be even simpler then. Well, it would be if Leon hadn’t gone full “Mad King”
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Honestly if we had the option to play as a vengeful/evil/neutral MC who in the future had the option to kill Leon by fire would be very fitting. A pyre for a pyre.
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If the baron actually cared, what he’d ACTUALLY do was retrieve the tablet as soon as the old man died. EDIT: Or, better yet, not put in the tablet at all and say he did.
What he DIDN’T do was, when everything went topsy turvy, tell the truth or make any attempt to fix it; instead he went “oh no, people are dying from this TOTALLY UNKNOWN MALADY wink wink, whatever shall I do, what about absolutely nothing, yeah, that sounds about right.”
Except nobody in Param actually cares, because the people that were being murdered were exclusively Arcadians. You know, again. From the exact same thing as one of the other times.
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Bruh. Y’all turning your MC into a terrorist. 
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Burning alive does that too you.
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Tbh, mc did look suspicious from Ante’s perspective right from the start;
1 - uses strange, unknown and extremely powerful magic no one else is able to use.
(Yes, mc did later reveal what their magic is to the best of their abilities but that changes nothing if mc was indeed a spy> tell them a truth to keep up appearances and keep on working, is a good tactic)
2 - super secretive about their past, very evasive, refuses to elaborate
( ok, a good spy might have come up with a good background, but once again, mixing in some truth(?) in a larger ploy and lie is always effective, besides, maybe Ante thought that this particular spy was too arrogant to bother with one? I mean, it worked, Leon and co fell for it. Or maybe there were too many variables to try and come up with smth major? Who knows! Definitely not Ante)
3 - when pushed to reveal some of their past thanks to Sister’s interference( would have kept quiet otherwise. good job, mc!), the secret they withheld turned out to be of great importance to both nations.
(Yes, mc wanting to leave the past behind, being apprehensive of Sister and thinking that “I thought she would have been satisfied with ruling one nation” is the objective truth that we know but imagine how this might have looked like to Ante, who already did not trust them? Was mc working with Sister? Was mc acting? Did they have a fall out? How many organizations are at play here? Was she just supposed to take mc’s words at face value? Her spy network did not have answers to these questions,
neither did any other nation, besides Thalia and co who were ok with innocent ppl dying)
In conclusion, mc “playing” the hero and saving people could have just been a minor side-effect of a larger operation and killing the saintess might have been just one of their goals. Who knows what this objectively dangerous person could do if left unchecked, hence why she kept on spying on them, albeit amateurishly.
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When it comes to Leomar and the BBQ, there’s an important point that you have to remember.
The Saintess wasn’t the only person the MC killed. The MC wasted all of her guards, people he had fought alongside during the war. The MC’s assassination of the Saintess was a mass casualty event which he committed against the people who would be expected to command his utmost loyalties. Not to mention that it was preceded by the MC just up and disappearing. It’s not like he woke up one day in the royal castle and started laying people out. He vanished, then reemerged, committed a massacre, and refused to explain himself. Against that, Leomar is supposed to hold off because “this isn’t like him?” In a world of magic, particularly enchantment, I don’t think it’s a safe assumption that people fundamentally stay the same, personality-wise, which takes the wind out of that whole argument.
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Well ya know, being burned alive at the stake in front of a mob, by your best friends, all of whom apparently trusted you “unconditionally”, then going through the trauma of being resurrected only to find that AFTER you died everyone did a 180 and love you again will do that to a person. I don’t think it’s terrorism, I think it’s karma 
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I’m not. Really all my mc wants is to get the parasites out, see if there is any memento to reclaim of his real mother and then retire to Leaf’s End, take over the Inn eventually and never ever use any magic again.
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If anything, you think that your best friend disappearing and then coming back to murder a bunch of people, would definitely be out of character, and in a world where magic exists, wouldn’t you be smart enough to wonder if mind control had taken some involvement in that?
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RIGHT?! Like though know mind control is a thing, but nooooo, it goes immediately to “BURN HER”, or him, or them, or however you built your mc. A couple of the options you have well in the dungeon hint at something bigger, but no one listens to you, they just see what they want to.
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