Edgar & Clorinda
"A partisan report doesn't mean that it's fabricated. You must ignore the opinions and judgements and focus on the facts. When enough facts from different sources align, then there is a good probability that the information is correct."
She smiled. "Easy. Morgana is far enough in the past that the information we have has been passed through generations and generations with different agendas. Hitler is really not history yet. We have personal witnesses. Also when talking about any 'villan', you're hard to find anyone who killed six million people based on their religion. Usually you are dealing about wars between empires."
She grinned. "You can certainly accept that the winners were trying to push a certain moral lesson and even agree with the moral lesson without thinking that things are so black and white. I also feel that the moral lesson is a societal lesson. My personal judgement on a person is irrelevant and would not help me in an objective pursuit of ancient artefacts."
She chuckled. "Yes, someone will arrest me, but it'll be patrol, because we don't seem to deem murder important enough if there is no dark magic. And riddle me this. A woman with many children has one who has the plague. It's the middle ages, she has no money and there's no cure. She creates a spell whose only purpose is to kill that child, because it's the only way to protect the others and spare her child from the pain of a slow death. She doesn't know about dark or not, doesn't have a formal education. She just knows that she needs to help her children. Later on, the religious leaders, men with money, classify the spell as dark because there's no other reason but to kill. She's killed for that, leaving her children orphans. Is that spell truly that bad? Is it different than my exploding spell? Worse? And yes, history is less kind on women than it is on men, ergo my example."