ChaChaCharms wrote:His killing of the inquisitors IMO is nothing more than justice being delivered. If you are an executioner (Which for all instances, Merlin is the best executioner on safehold), I'd think you would look forward to delivering the final justice on those who have tortured and murdered countless thousands of men, women, and children.
I feel bad for the schuelerites that are truly trying their best to not send people to the punishment, the ones that actually care about their comrades, and it is quite sad how they are resigned to their fate when they appear to be good people but chose the wrong order to serve under.
It's sounded like people who leave the Inquisition (well short of being captured!) aren't under the Charisian death sentence. So those Schuelerites have plenty of time and opportunity to reconsider the virtues of obeying a monster, and whether the priestly vocation they felt when they were young would demand they starve and torture children to death. If they're sick of that, or afraid of Mab - walk away, walk away now. If it's too late for them, like the better intendent aboard the prison transports, then I'm glad he could at least prevent the needless death then of those prisoners and the Dohlaran crew.
I would have been better pleased then if the prisoners could have asked that he be spared. Certainly that would have been in the spirit of policing the Inquisition fairly.