which of the eight prince you can consider a good guy ?

[Mokachino]

as far as i know the history of eight king /prince are all bad in one way of another and i'm curious is there any of these princes that you can considered good guy beside Sima Ai ?

[Straybow]

I'd go for Sima Liang based on how they have tried to sell the characters.

[欣怡 (Nathalie)]

Like in the real Three Kingdoms period none tbh, they all seek power. But like Straybow said Liang in the game because he is rightful regent I think.

[Riru]

Based on what we know from history I would say Sima Liang, not only was he was one of two rightful regents when Emperor Wu died but due to court plots he didn't and left the capital to avoid conflict. When there was a palace coup against the regent that was instigated by Empress Jia he was summoned back to serve as regent alongside Wei Guan.

Then Sima Wei and Empress Jia essentially conspired together stating the men planned to depose Emperor Huiand a second coup happened, Liang and Wei Guan were surrounded by Sima Wei's forces on Empress Jia's order and they surrendered peacefully. The edict the Empress had given stated that they were to be unharmed but both they and several family members were killed by Sima Wei's men, and only after they were promised a large sum of silk.

I am not saying he was 100% innocent but by all accounts Liang was the one who tried to avoid conflict the most and Emperor Wu did appoint him co-regent, and he wasn't the co-regent to screw the other one out of the job. He was respected enough that even held captive the soldier's didn't kill him until after they had been bribed with a large amount of silk. So by these accounts he is the closest to a moral upstanding decent Prince, fittingly he is the first to die and it gets worst from there.

[echoes222]

Sima Ai might be like that as well :) I just watched lore video on YT on this time period and he was kind of loyalist and really progressive reformer

[欣怡 (Nathalie)]

I think Ai and Liang are the 'good' guys but like all power struggles none of them are really good. Just like how Liu Bei was not at all the hero he has been depicted as in the ROTK and Chinese legend.

[Mokachino]

yeah tbh i feel sorry for ai :( poor guy

[Riru]

I don't disagree in any way about 'good guys' or Ai being another contender for most moral. If anything the conflict shows that good guys only exist in fiction, in reality you find the person who is most agreeable with yourself. After all HISTORY IS COMPLICATED.

[欣怡 (Nathalie)]

Originally posted by Riku:

I don't disagree in any way about 'good guys' or Ai being another contender for most moral. If anything the conflict shows that good guys only exist in fiction, in reality you find the person who is most agreeable with yourself. After all HISTORY IS COMPLICATED.

Yup. Thats why its nice to have games like this that add a bit of fiction in, or books like ROTK. Reality is normally full or horrid people, or in Chinese History Wang Mang. Who I don't really like, just feel sorry for him.