Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-1292715-20181223044830/@comment-26018514-20190326174918

Sentry 616 wrote: I Seriously doubt she wants to go back to the light after all of this, especially given that she still does everything she can to fracture/kill humanity and find the relics, which will bring about armageddon. If she really jsut wanted to return to the light, she could give herself up to Oz, and give him time to gather SEWs.

Maybe she wants an extra something to keep Cinder in check, but beyond that, I'm really having trouble thinking of anything. But this isn't as simple as "going back to the light". Salem is a human, a magical human being sure, but still human. It is fact that the pool was stated to cause her unbearable agony, yet never gave her POWER of darkness, it gave her MOTIVATION for destruction.

Salem isn't some mustache twirling member of a league of villains, she's not in it "for the evuls", she doesn't kick puppies to keep her alignment, She does what she wants because she wants to do it and not even the gods will stop her.

Basically, it's like if one of those necromantic "costs" of being a necromancer/lich in various D&D iterations could be cured without actually affecting performance of said mages magic, why NOT cure it in that case?