To be honest, Horace had no objection to killing the Hornsent in itself.
Leaving aside the fact that the Hornsent's mastery of the "Divine Gate" technology posed an enormous threat to Marika, who had relied on the Divine Gate to become a god.
If they could build one, they could build another, or even one aimed at her.
Simply being a "shaman" meant that Marika could never let the Hornsent off.
The Hornsent's persecution of the shamans amounted to exterminating an entire people. Horace felt that, for Marika to have endured it until now, she must have picked up a trick from the ninjas of the Land of Reeds.
Had it been him, he would have repaid them tooth for tooth, eye for eye long ago.
What? You say the Hornsent have already lost, and slaughtering them now would be a bit inhumane?
What do I care whether it's humane? Was what the Hornsent did to the shamans humane?
Looks to me like they're living a little too comfortably. Might as well settle the hatred in this generation-wipe them out completely.
Save future generations the trouble. After all, the further history recedes, the easier it becomes to edit.
Let's not end up with the farce of the "victims" becoming the "aggressors." There are lessons to be learned here.
Eliminating potential threats and settling historical scores-he understood that logic all too well.
But the question was: why did Messmer have to take the blame?
A war directed at a race, involving purges and conquest, would leave a deep shadow and an infamous legacy, no matter how "justified" its reasons.
Marika could easily mobilize an army herself and appoint other generals. Why had she chosen Messmer, of all people?
There was absolutely no need to saddle Messmer with the dark, heavy title