Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-2804:431:B700:3599:D022:2FE7:358A:6D2-20180523202338/@comment-31763506-20180525151510

OK, thread hijacking aside, who were the innocents we killed in Ch 1?

Tal was a rapist and a menace to society. The slaving merchants at the camp were, you know, slavers. Reval's goons were also participating in a human trafficking scheme, and expressed an intention to rape the female party members. The dudes at the Orc farm were planning to rape and kill an innocent woman. The guys running the slaving operation in Stineford... see above. The dudes who tried to mug you in the alley in Stineford or picked a fight with you in the slum bar attacked first. The guys participating in the coup against Janine were planning to enslave her and tyrannize the country... Reval was planning to enslave Megail with sexual magic and steal all her money. And likewise his men attacked first with the intention to rape the party members, IIRC. Then we have the implied to be embezzling bank clerk, who only died because we didn't take adequate precautions to keep the original alive.

So unless we argue that the bank clerk was both completely innocent and an intentional killing, or I've missed someone or we are arguing that some of the questionably sentient non-monster enemies like the demons in the Academy or the ogre in Devil's Pass were innocents...

Likewise, there was an immediate proximate moral justification for the invasion of Yhilin. It's strongly implied that our intervention preempted a popular uprising that would have caused a protracted civil war with much more civilian death.