>>712918352
This is the best take here. To Edelgard, the Slitherers were useful idiots. She needed them and they needed her and between them and the church, the Slitherers are the only ones she could at least partially use. However >>712918808 is also correct. The core problem regarding Edelgard's divisiveness is her absolutionist stance on most of her beliefs. The Church must be destroyed regardless of context. Even if they didn't intend for nobility to be what it turned out to be. Even if them choosing not to enforce their dogma meant the nobility have cause to believe they were gods chosen. Even if it means sacrificing randoms while calling out the church for abandoning their followers. Edelgard pushes forward. So if she's going to do that then she and her supporters can't cry foul when it's done to her