Talk:Asmodean/@comment-25491360-20141004161548/@comment-6192846-20141004162227

Duke Sateriasis was a rather well-liked Duke. He was also assassinated by a Marlon Count who was in an affair with the Queen and was never punished for his crimes. Sati was never charged or convicted of anything he did.

Removing the religious stigmata he had for committing polygamy, making a demonic contract, abducting and enslaving women (all of which was never actually proven beyond the few witnesses claiming it), he looks like a Duke who had been wronged by the Empire he served, which adds just another reason to want independence from said Empire.

That's the best I can come up with for the reasoning.