Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20161007195718/@comment-26932251-20161009080948

Something I found humorous was that Grisha felt absolved of the crimes of his ancestors when he saw proof that his ancestors built infrastructure.

It's like, an imperial power being rapacious and exploitative isn't mutually exclusive to it also building roads and such. Look at the Romans, they were assholes, sometimes killing people by the hundreds of thousands just to steal their stuff, but they also invested in their captured territory.