Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150223174230/@comment-6192846-20150325024344

67.65.248.45 wrote: I mainly get the Irina as a Knight Templar of sorts from her desire for the Court end, it seems, along with her feelings toward Elluka. But I can see what you mean.

My impression of the reading was that it's more so omnicidal revenge without real strong meaning to it. Irina seems to simply want to have revenge because (admittedly) she was jealous, got screwed over, and wants to blame someone. This was originally just Elluka but her reasons end up going all over the place from the gods to (hypocritically enough) HERs as the centuries progress it would seem.

The Court seems to be the means to that end. I do think she has a thinly veiled "this is to right wrongs" but she gets called out for it quickly after with all her clear "me me me" mentality she keeps expressing. You can argue whether or not that makes her pure evil but I thought it was made clear she was just using whatever suited her own convenience so long as she gets her personal desired vengeance.

My impression could change when I get back to this scene and more thoroughly check through it, but that's what I could derive from it on my first quick read through. It's actually rather interesting though how much Irina's dialogue parallels Nemesis imo. Switch out the Court with the Hellish Yard and I wouldn't have noticed the difference.