>>719174020
Your argument doesn't even stand up to your own premise. Let's ignore Word of God for a moment where the developers themselves tell us Rhea's motivations was to avert war. The psycho you're presenting to us would not have spared the children of the Ten Elites. There was no reason to, by the Battle at Tailtean Plains Nemesis had been in power for 90 something years. If CF Rhea was canon, she would have erased them all from the face of the earth. But she didn't do that. In fact, the book in the Abyss Library shows journal entries from one of the Ten Elites where expresses confusion that Seiros made a treaty with their kinsmen and descendants but the Ten Elites themselves were being hunted down. And he expresses regret for ever aligning himself with Nemesis in the first place.
But okay, Seiros spared their lives but she reduced them to second class citizens right? Also no, in fact she elevated them. The lie she told about Nemesis did not paint them as murderous bandits who committed genocide in exchange for power. No she told Fodlan that Nemesis was a hero that sadly fell to wicked gods. She threw her own family under the bus to make their murderers look like a tragic hero and not the crazed psycho that, ironically, you present Rhea as.
But even if we ignore ALL OF THAT, I challenge you to point up me one time Rhea burned a single city that defied her. Because by my memory, The Empire disbanded the Southern Church and kicked out all church influence until very recently. And Rhea did not raise her hand against them. Meanwhile Edelgard continued to employ the Slitherers AFTER they burned down Remire Village, in imperial area. Did the Empire take them in? No, Garreg Mach did. What the fuck are we talking about?