To Aaron, the argument Sarevok had presented to Abdel was a load of shit.
It was blatant bandit logic. What did he mean, she had lost a husband, so all Abdel had to do was give her another one?
It reminded Aaron of Pang Tong's argument for persuading Liu Bei to seize Xichuan in the Three Kingdoms of his previous life: Liu Zhang had such a huge house, and with his abilities, he was bound to lose it anyway. Why not take it from him and leave him a stairwell to retire in? That was already treating him very generously. If someone else took it, he might not even get a stairwell. They were saving him!
The greater good!
That was what you called bandit logic.
And what did he mean, taking good care of a friend's wife was the greater good of the Realms?
By that reasoning, Boss Cao was undoubtedly a Living Saint, the kind the Emperor would canonize.
Granted, the meaning of the greater good could change with the times, but this was simply absurd.
That was why Aaron was not worried about Abdel. He had always been worried about Sarevok, the original boss of Baldur's Gate I and Gorion's actual murderer in the story.
Now, because Aaron had arrived, Sarevok had never had a chance to become the mastermind behind the scenes. Instead, he and Abdel had become close brothers in prison. Without the blood feud over Abdel's murdered father, and with the enlightenment Sarevok had attained in prison, Aaron had thought he might turn out differently.
Now it seemed this fellow was evil at his core. Even after everything he had experienced, even after Bhaal's Divinity had been extracted, Sarevok's "evil urges" would not disappear. Those urges were his own.
It was his nature. It