What you are saying makes perfect sense to me from game’s perspective; that he would not spend that much time with Laharl after the sacrifice, possibly avoiding him, feeling like a failure and all, it’s from the novel’s perspective it falls apart to me because of Yasurl. Now I don’t know about you guys, but to me Yasurl looks about as obviously evil as Vulcanus, and the idea of Krichevskoy being such a bad judge of character as to think leaving him in her care was an acceptable idea I feel was going of the edge, she is just too terrible to me, had it not been her I could understand.

Slightly of topic but another thing I did not like that the novels did in relation to Krichevskoy is how Baal was handled; he is a complete weakling and idea of Krichevskoy dyeing sealing that version of Baal is just insulting.

Reading your analysis of Krichevskoy’s grief made me think of something else, even though Laharl’s mother was pregnant with Sicily she was still the one who sacrificed herself, makes me wonder if Krichevskoy knew she was pregnant and how that must have affected him, I find it to be an odd choice to have Laharl’s mother be the one who sacrificed herself since at the time that meant the sacrifice of two lives instead of just one. I always thought Laharl’s mother was the parent that made the sacrifice because Krichevskoy was king and he was responsible for the kingdom as well as his family, but now what does not seem like such a good reason.