Talk:Alraune/@comment-174.53.167.220-20150312113148/@comment-25035274-20150327180212

Which is why, as Kuruni pointed out, you spend most of your time bashing monsters in the head with your Sword That Looks Like Melted Plastic.

What the story is trying to lay out is that both Monsters and Humans have some form of civilization, and that it is ultimately not in the interests of either group for the constant back-and-forth bloodshed to continue. It's ALSO intended to be the story of a naive young man having to face the fact that the real world doesn't always adhere to the ideals we think it should.

As you progress through the game, you actually run into numerous attrocities commited by both sides, ranging from monsters acting as bandits, to humans destroying habitat, to monsters demanding sacrifice, to humans enslaving those not like them. You also hit an instance of monster-vs.-monster violence in Plasect Village, and you gradually learn that the entire time, Ilias had actually been inciting all the assorted hatred and murder for countless years.

Seriously here, she was a complete sociopath, and her greatest joy was in tormenting the mortal races. She didn't really care about humans worshipping her. Hell, she regularly ordered the torture or destruction of even her most ardent of supporters.