On one hand, he killed loads and loads of slavers, and helped to bring down their extremely brutal empire by aiding a slave rebellion. On the other hand, he also killed a bunch of people who probably didn't need to be, to the point that the mer describe as the leader of a Elven Pogrom, and he also killed a bunch of Khajiit who weren't even doing anything because he mistook them for elves.
He was also a gay insane cyborg from the future with a Mega-Man style arm cannon, and I'm not sure if his homocidal tendencies inspired from his Shezzar-Akatosh Duality Madness make him 100% responsible for his own actions.
Y'know, stuff like CHIM Amaranth godhead C0da enantiomorph mantling, stuff like that
gay insane cyborg from the future
I must have missed a lore book or something
When Huna, whom Pelinal raised from grain-slave to hoplite and loved well, took death from an arrowhead made from the beak of Celethelel the Singer, the Whitestrake went on his first Madness.
Michael Kirkbride, who wrote Knights of the Nine, wanted to say that Huna "shared a tent" with Pelinal, but Bethesda thought that would infringe on the fact that the player was reincarnating him.
On the "Insane cyborg from the Future" part:
[And then] Kyne granted Perrif another symbol, a diamond soaked red with the blood of elves, [whose] facets could [un-sector and form] into a man whose every angle could cut her jailers and a name: PELIN-EL [which is] "The Star-Made Knight" [and he] was arrayed in armor [from the future time].
Here's where the Arm Cannon comes from
he was Pelinal the Whitestrake because of his left hand, made of a killing light;
All this is from in-game sources, with Michael Kirkbride himself adding a few years later:
Pelinal was and is an insane collective swarmfoam war-fractal from the future, you betcha.
Man, Elder Scrolls has such interesting lore and yet the games themselves just keep getting more and more generic
Everything good in the ElderScrolls universe owes it's existence to amphetamines. Fuck Kirkbride, Tina is the Godhead.
Even the elevator pitch for a lot of these concepts is cool as hell. Knights of the Nine is "hey what if The Terminator (1984) happened basically beat-for-beat in the elder scrolls history except skynet was fighting racist elves instead of humans, and then you had to go finish the T-800's unfinished business? also what if we casually threw in the fact that elves used to have feathers"
You missed the part about him yelling out the name Reman after biting out a dude's neck veins even though Reman wasn't a famous emperor yet
I barely remember deep ES lore but I remember this dude being pretty insane conceptually, so I'm gonna say based
Morihaus is my man(bull) Pelinal's best friend, actually lead the slave rebellions, best general who ever lived. Was the first minotaur and had giant fucking wings!
But Pelinal was based as fuck, the gods ripped him apart and put him back together, that's bound to make any one a little insane.
This is the reality of all those revive John Brown and give him a gundam memes. If god is talking to you and you have superpowers there's no way you don't go overboard at some point
I'm not sure it's really worth attempting to ascertain the morals of a being blessed/cursed with some form of divine-given bloodrage.
I'd also be careful considering the Song of Pelinal as pure canon as they're from the 2nd Era with the source being manuscripts which have not been dated. They may not be accurate at all and may be falsehoods or even propaganda.
He's got this cool as video about him though
