Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-198.54.211.2-20161114211214/@comment-35332167-20200508093428

Well, from what I learned, Zahard in his early years seemed similar to Baam. It's true he wanted power to stand above others as GOG said but GOG also said that he wanted to use that power to make everyone in the Tower happy. Although it's unknown if they ever met again, GOG clearly saw teaching Zahard as a mistake and regretted the king that he became. Likewise "The Boss" that Dowon meets clearly knows Zahard and seems to be against him, considering how he told Cha to serve Baam as he would be the one to defeat Zahard and though Dowon said "The Boss" said that Baam would cause a war, she didn't say that "The Boss" was against Baam, only that he knew Baam would start a fierce war with Zahard, and thus it's more likely he's against Zahard. Yet, even "The Boss" acknowledged Zahard was once a nice guy, as he said when Dowon asked him whether Baam would become the next Zahard that he truly has no idea if Baam would take the same path as Zahard and only time will tell as he had known Zahard for a while and "The Boss" said that Zahard wasn't always like he is now.

So you could say that he wasn't always bad but clearly he failed in making everyone happy and that took a lot out of him. If that wasn't enough, Arlen, the girl he loved, betrayed him and married another man and went to war with him and even sired Baam in the first place. Any normal person would definitely be hardened after failing their life goal and then being betrayed by the love of their life so it's not as if Zahard didn't have sufficient motivation to be the king that FUG hates in the first place.