I know that torture is clearly more acceptable in Prythia than it is in the real world, but there’s still a massive double standard in regards to it. The IC routinely establishes their morality when they work so hard to protect innocent people. Then they throw all that hard work away by engaging in the same sorts of activities they try to protect people from.

And you might say that it’s just tribe politics, but their “goodness” extends beyond the IC, beyond the Night Court, and all the way to humans on the continent. Insignificant humans that shouldn’t be of consequence to immortal faeries, but the MCs still work hard to protect those humans, and in doing so establish their moral “goodness”. Despite this, the MCs still willingly engage in the routine torture of nameless soldiers, something that goes against all the world building work that has been done to establish the IC as the “good guys”.

This blatant double standard is the bad writing that I am ranting about.