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You sure brought up an old thread. lol but I guess I'll put in some of my two cents. Luca was not like Hitler. Hitler was more cunning and had more justifiable reasons to do the things he did (Most people won't tell you this). The Jews pretty much ran the country and had all the money and power at the time because Jewish families tended to have close ties to each other in Europe. After WWI, Europe wanted to blame Germany for everything and punish them, despite it being everybody's fault for the war (America however was the one country who said not to do this but help Germany rebuild). Because of this, most German people disliked the Jews and hated them, in a similar respect to how Low and Middle-Class people in America greatly dislike Higher-class citizens. This is also why Hitler had such a strong support for conquering Europe, and I assume Germany was pretty ticked off about being "punished" for something that wasn't completely their fault. Hitler took advantage of this, and slowly twisted things around from taking back the country for the Germans, to creating a war machine to take whatever they wanted. Because of this, the people loved and supported him because he pretty much freed them and avenged them. However, he did manage to brainwash them into believing things like lesser races being slaves and wiping out the Jews was okay. But religious propaganda works very well on the minds of a mostly Christian nation (See George W. Bush). Now don't get me wrong, I don't think anything Hitler did was okay or right (I'm against war personally) but one cannot overlook the facts and reasons behind it all. Luca Blight didn't really do any of this, and as pointed out by a few people he was more of a military man rather than a political leader or propagandist like Hitler. I would say...Luca is more akin to Stalin. Why you may ask? Well. Stalin was incredibly paranoid. Very strange as well, as he tended to stay up all night and sleep all day. He was very similar to Ivan the Terrible in the sense that he would send soldiers out to kill his enemies every night and they would be killed if they didn't kill an enemy. One would think "He's crazy!" Yes, but not in the sense you're thinking. To Stalin? The entire world was his enemy. He hated the world, he hated people in every country and just flat out hated everything. Stalin was much worse than Hitler, but he never was able to do the things he probably would have done if he was able. "Some men just want to watch the world burn." Michael Caine really said it best. Luca was a man like this, and this is why people like Lepant believed Luca would eventually come towards the Toran Republic. Luca enjoyed death, killing, and massacre. He never once stated his reasons for attacking Jowston was because of his mother. No, thats an assumption. Its very likely thats why they were the first target, but what kind of militaristic king would stop with conquering one nation? Luca also did kill men by the thousands (You'll have to check exact population numbers for specific towns like Ryube and Toto as well as take into account how many soldiers his army slaughtered as well as the soldiers he sent to die for him). Thats probably the one thing he and Hitler have in common. Personally? I'd say Leon is more akin to Hitler, as they both would use any means necessary in order to achieve their goals. Unfortunately for Hitler, Leon is a tactical genius and Adolf wasn't much more than a charismatic propagandist. I guess in a sense, Leon excels in areas Hitler doesn't and vice-versa. About Vlad though: Vlad really wasn't anything like Luca. The Turks were very hell bent on conquering, and they were invading Romania. He basically just...scared them shitless by creating a forest of corpses and dipping his bread in their blood. Cruelty towards his own people was also something he renowned for, which Luca was not (From Luca's perspective, it'd be like this "Why break your weapons when you can use them to slaughter your enemies?") However, Vlad did this to his own people for good reason which was to abolish crime. And well...he did. He did get results and there was no crime in Romania at the time. Granted, this was INSANE and WRONG but can't deny the results...lol. Ironically...Vlad especially hated the German Merchants who *gasp* had all the money and power in Romania...interesting, isn't it? Vlad did to the Germans for the exact same reason Hitler did to the Jews. Its almost uncanny. But I ramble, excuse me... Bottom line: I can't say Hitler = Luca due to everything I just rambled on about. But I do see slight similarities, but only on the same level as them being psychopaths. My personal favourite thing about Luca was in a world filled with huge amounts of magical power in the form of the True Runes, and villains who use them? Luca did not use one. Now one might claim he used the Beast Rune but this is not the case, as the Beast Rune was never attached to anyone. Luca fought against, if you count Luc, the power of two True Rune and it took hundreds to take him down. Thats pretty crazy, and just goes to show you that even a True Rune's power can be over-come with human will. Its even crazier if you have an understanding on just how powerful Viktor is (Oh I guess the Zodiac Sword kinda counts as three TR?) being that he is strong enough to do crazy and impossible things himself, and yet next to Luca he's not much more than an ant. This is probably why people put Luca on such a high pedestal, because what villain in any form of fiction or even non-fiction is really anything like this? Its hard to find one, and one done correctly I might add. _________________  |
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| About, Lucia being from another land, she mentioned in-game that Karaya was under Highland rule at the time, and that Luca was their King. So, Luca wasn't truly getting help from the outside, but more like enlisting the help of a vassal state. _________________ 
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