#many people would be talked into joining the shady blood cult by him lol

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Really do think people got suckered by how Ansbach isn't as charmingly nutty as Varre. That cool old man is STILL part of a deranged blood cult and was so good at cult stuff he was head honcho of Mohg's special guys. Being a cool, calm old man doesn't preclude him from bathing in blood and wounds enough to make Varre look vanilla!

Yeah, if anything it seems like it would make him even more effective at recruiting people, and we’ve seen that the dynasty values elegance and refinement so it’s not even surprising he’s calm and polite (look at how nobles dress, their swordplay, the way Ansbach’s incantation is described as unusual for being so aggressive, how Mohg greets you as an “honored guest”, Eleonora being called a proud knight, and so on)

People are forgetting this is the cult that requires killing your maiden to join, and that their whole thing is invading and cutting down their fellow Tarnished, Yura talks about how he’s lost so many already. You do a whole bloody finger ritual so you can invade people whenever you please. The surgeons were explicitly described as kidnapped, and the merchant there is apparently “imprisoned” so sounds like he was too. And we’re not even deeply involved members so we don’t see all the details. Ansbach is described as having a “fearsome reputation” in a cult like that, he’s hardly just some kind old man