Posted by Hunt Stoddard on April 16, 1997 at 18:36:10:
In Reply to: Re: Demon Princes series posted by Tobias Seldon on December 28, 1996 at 18:53:45:
I agree with this explanation. The fact is that Kirth Gersen's entire life is and has always been governed by a completely pathological obsession for revenge instilled by his grandfather, a fact that he well knows but is completely powerless to change. I get the impression that he acts as much out of a feeling of duty to his grandfather as out of any hatred he has for the demon princes, but either way, with the end of the demon princes he has essentially nullified his entire reason for being. In the real world, a person like Gersen would probably have a nervous breakdown long before he reached his goal, but he would surely have one after reaching it. This is what makes the series so fascinating: It allows us to experience a remorseless and single minded drive that none of us would ever survive. It is a study of human obsession and compulsion.