Niamh is morally ambiguous, and her motivations are often unclear. The Cyrodiil, indeed the Nirn, that she inhabits is often an unpleasant place and aside from her fundamental nature, she is also in part a product of the world in which she lives and of her experiences within that world, for good or ill.
Although I have in the past described her as mad, bad, and dangerous to know - in truth I think that's doing her a disservice, she's more complex than that, and whilst she's certainly not evil, she definitely isn't good either. As her character develops, I see that whilst she is or has been guilty of certain things, she is not always culpable; she is a woman who has sinned, but has also been sinned against.
But, she can be as good as she is bad, she just needs a chance to show it...
An anti-heroine? Very definitely.
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Settled in Breezehome - (Mostly)
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