Thank you. But Throal standards are, I'd say, quite interesting from others point of view also (say, Cara Fahd orks
). (Let's not forget that they actually ruled Barsaive for Therans before - so I see the situation as more close to how India got its independence than how USA did, i.e., with empire lacking enough other bureaucrats to rule colonies for them if these don't want to.) Windling torturers I forgot, thanks.
While arrogance in dealing with Horrors (as exemplified by belief in possibility to protect whole metropolis from them - which turned out to be not quite so easy...), while may be foolish, doesn't make them evil per se.
What I mean - the picture seems to contain quite enough cynical/practical/realistic political entities (just as old AD&D Greyhawk did, to cite another example) which have complex diplomatic relationships, with such clear evil as that exemplified by Horrors. Such as approach I like. At the same time just one of these is spoken about as if it's an absolutely evil (which isn't the case with, say, Iopos - of course, Iopos doesn't have so much resources and so isn't percieved as so big a threat to Throal dominance in Barsaive...
). This looks somewhat strange to me so I want to know whether it's so for other players/GMs...