Talk:Taliyah/@comment-5241267-20160429180024/@comment-26837195-20160502135648

Even though he's generalizing infamous figures, Giorgio has a point.

While Hitler is probably the wrong person to reference, I don't think Azir is as good as you guys think. He only gained his ability to create sand soldiers very recently, as they're clearly a part of his ascension (I don't know how he became ascended, but only the ascended are anthropomorphized animals), which was meant to take place at the fall of shurima, so he would've needed some other method to get work done.

Before he gained his sand soldiers, he probably used slaves or magic to make his kingdom, but we can't dissmiss Taliyah's knowledge as just 'lack of information', the people who taught her the history of Shurima wouldn't just make up a period of enslavement for no reason, so I'm inclined to believe that Azir did use slaves at some point.

Also, it would be extremely cheap of Riot to make a mary sue the emperor character out of Azir, at some point a ruler has to make immoral choices for the good of his subjects, whether it be genocide, or slavery due to lack of space or workforce.