HitTheGroundWal posted...
Still, I prefer to take it when the leader is cruel over kind. I keep an eye out.
But then you get super grey morality. Like, what if he is cruel, but his heir is just, kind, gregarious, etc? Are you going to condemn him to a life in exile because his father was a dick? What if the guy is cruel, but his military command is the only thing keeping a horde of angry Vikings from sacking his lands and raping everything in sight?
Despite what everyone at the time said, moral absolutism was assuredly not the flavor of the day during the middle ages.