"Daimons are bad." It's telling that you even need to ask that.
When did I ever say that was one of my principles?
I find it rather surprising that you seem to take this aggressive tone OOC. "Daimons" are a name, could have been any other. "The Light" is good, because light is always the good guys, right? Yet I've seen more blood spilled at the temples of "The Light" than at the temples of the Blood Cult and of Daimon Worship combined.
Why are the daimons so evil? Just because of their name?
Or is it because they kill people? Because, obviously, that's not what *every* realm does all the time, right?
Or because they systematically target the innocent? Because, of course, there's *no* other realm that did that, right?
The daimons are evil, sure, they've proved it. Everyone knows it. I never denied it myself either. But so what? Are you seriously going to tell me that everyone else is an angel, just because they are human?
You could try to argue they are more evil, but that's not really possible to prove. Yea, they did more stuff, but that's because they were given the opportunity to (they had the power). Are you trying to tell me that no other human realm would of done these things if they could have?
Otherwise, you could try to judge them on something else, easier to compare with others. Honor, for example. In this case, sure, the priests have used a few tricks, they lied a bit. Then again, so did most realms. Other than that, Overlord, their ruler, has been pretty straightforward and truthful all along. Which is more than can be said about a handful of other rulers.
Is it that surprising that some characters might now deem that the moral decay of humanity is so great that only a great "fire" can cleanse it now? That civilization as it exists is too corrupt to still be salvageable?