#also... intentional or not there is a parallel to be drawn between Hilmes and the citizens of Ecbatana in this chapter

[tired-reader-writer]

Squinted at the raws today and hoo boi, the Parsians really were holding massive grudges, weren't they?

In the dialogue (and not even all dialogue just the small part I focused on) I found:

Someone whose father's eyeballs were presumably gouged out

An old woman whose son and grandson were murdered

A man shouting “let me have revenge for my wife!” it's unclear what happened to his wife but as we can probably assume: nothing good

And in the earlier arcs and chapters of ArSen as a whole there were Lusitanians bragging about how they cooked a child and force-fed it to its parents, in the arc where Kubard, Merlaine, and the locals of Daylam fought against Lusitanians the latter were shown to have a baby skewered on one of the spears, so on and so forth, yeah is it a wonder the Parsians are so pissed?