Quote Originally Posted by Tokiko Mima View Post
Stanley's side encourages the use of torture, uses croakamancy and legions of croaked troops that likely aren't getting paid, and enslaves dwagons to fight for them. Stanley's side is clearly evil, but Ansom's side could very well be either good or evil. The only sign we have is that it appears Ansom's followers are fighting with him willingly, so he seems good so far.
OK, the other points are pretty standard fantasy-genre "define the bad guys" criteria, but are you seriously saying that beyond merely having uncroaked troops, Stanley's forces are evil because those zombies aren't drawing paychecks?

We'll see how Ansom treats his prisoners, if he ever gets any.