Thread:MMYP999/@comment-27109830-20190720105636/@comment-27109830-20190810181258

Alrighty.

Artorius and Edelgard are white-haired anti-villains who seek to usher their world into a new era of tranquility and peace. As grand as their ambitions are, they are very self-aware, stoic and troubled thanks to suffering tragic losses in their past, which sent them down a path of well-intentioned extremism that stripped them of any redemption and loved ones they could've had otherwise.

Unfortunately, a tragic misunderstanding of their actions prior to the timeskip would come to yield serious consequences for them afterwards, as one of their closest friends went on to become a vengeful and cynical anti-hero who swore to kill them for their actions, even though Laphicet willingly sacrificed himself for Velvet's sake and Edelgard had nothing to do with the tragedy of Duscur, rendering their quest for vengeance moot.

Interestingly enough though, Artorius is the head of a religious order that seeks to impose absolute rule over the world by stripping humans of their emotions. Meanwhile, Edelgard's ulterior motive is to bring down the Church of Seiros, which effectively has an iron-tight grip all over Fódlan, meaning they have plenty reason to fight each-other in the first place.