ah that explains the contradictory slander gilbert is a person of the queen who has a precog ability and thus has seen the abuse that was supposed to happen which she told gilbert about....
@Geohie
while your statement is more inclusive of facts than kutabarie, whose statement is just a populistic half of a half truth, you are still missing a load of information:
psychopaths dont just include those that feel enjoyment from inflicting pain and death...
psychopaths are generaly missing the ability of empathy or have a mishappen conscience which has them unable to be subjected to guilt in extreme cases they can even gain the ability to turn those things on and off like a light switch
so its less of a psychopath desiring to bring pain for their enjoyment and more that psychopaths are people that dont mind causing harm and or death of others as a hinderance in achieving their goals and or desires
if you wanted to describe psychopaths in a nutshell it would be a sociopath that had a opportunity in which he/she/it has proven the ability to kill.
so i would doubt that pryde wanted to inflict harm as her main objective as what she did might be horrifc but is still small potatoes compared to the possibilities she had,
she wanted to cause stayle to be subjected to the same torments she saw herself faced with... loss of freedom by being forced on a path , loss of the only parental figure she had
well in a twisted way she actualy welcomed stayle into the family by making him into a copy of what she saw herself as
also its not me trying to defend her but inorder to prevent future occurences one has to understand the reasons behind it
the death of pryde in the original game was well deserved and long over due
but if i had to rank her as the root of all evil for this plot it would merely be at 2nd or 3rd place because i would guess her mother set all the dominos rolling with a self fulfilling prophecy of her daughter becoming a tyrant which caused her to distance herself from pryde which in turn cause pryde to become a tyrant
edit: also in theory it is stated that those that like to inflict pain and death to feel enjoyment also have some sort of outward reverence for life as not being able to use it for their enjoyment is a waste
which is something pryde is missing because she frequently let disasters which she foresaw happen
which is why i think the pain and or deatg she inflicts are just tools and not the goal