Iver did not deliberately distinguish which of the blood slaves were truly beyond redemption and loyal to the Earl of Orleans, and which were merely innocent victims kidnapped and brought here.
On this point, he and Sherlock held different views—
Sherlock approached the matter from a legal perspective, regarding those blood slaves as "accomplices under duress." After all, he had been a Law Mage of Avalon, so it was only natural that he would think this way.
Avalon and Antimony had one obvious difference in their laws: Avalon did not recognize the Emergency Avoidance Rule, under which a person could harm another to preserve their own life, while Antimony allowed it.
More specifically, if a kidnapper threatened someone and ordered them to go outside and randomly kill someone, threatening to kill them if they refused—then in Avalon, the threatened person would still be prosecuted as a murderer. In Antimony, even if they could not be considered innocent, their sentence would at least be reduced.
This was because Avalon believed that the purpose of the "Emergency Avoidance Rule" was to promote the overall interests of society, and that the meaning of law was to allow society to cleanse itself and develop in a better direction. Thus, when faced with kidnappers, Avalon tended to reject all of their demands. This was a legal principle established during the reign of Tudor III.
The tyrant known as the "Hanging King" believed that compromising to preserve some individuals was tantamount to encouraging such behavior—or, in other words, acknowledging the possibility of such crimes.
For example, if a kidnapper believed that "kidnapping civilians in public would allow them to extort the government into doing something," that would instead increase the likelihood of kidnappers taking hostages. Similarly, if someone forced to commit murder knew that doing so