oh speaking of villains, i'm (third island spoilers) sort of confused about the motivation of the two mentor characters. like, the impression i thought the game was trying to give me was that they were cynical about the solstice religion and didn't want more kids to have to become warriors, which is fair enough. but their solution to this is to... summon a dark god to murder everyone and destroy the world??? like. that just seems inconsistent with their character unless i'm supposed to believe that they're actually just pure evil now? why is that the solution they turned to??? was that the only alternative? maybe this will make sense eventually because it doesn't to me right now.