...Stanley?

"She'd never follow that monster out of her own free will." - Jillian, from the most recent comic.

There have been other references as well... do we have any idea what makes Stanley a monster? Is the fact that he's a non-royal running a side enough to make him a monster in the eyes of Erfers? Or do we know of actual atrocities he's committed?

Redcloak's a monster. The difference is, I can point to atrocities he's committed, a fair number of them in panel. (Torture, genocide, etc.) Stanley just seems to have had a string of military victories in a world that seems to be based on a wargame. Unlike OOtS, there are no children in Erf for Stanley to have murdered, for that matter there seem to be very few if any noncombantant units at all. Sooooo.....

What exactly makes him a monster? Any thoughts?