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It didn't start off with him being in charge. It was gradual. It led to Zoe still being with him all those years later.
They had followed him and he had led them to their deaths.
He wasn't some kind of goram hero. (Though a part of him, hidden, wished. Maybe.)
A hero would have saved them, a hero wouldn't be dragging Zoe with him. (A hero gets other people killed.) A hero wouldn't have been betrayed (he use to kiss the cross and believe.)