Villian or Hero is only a matter of perspective.
It's a nice sentiment, and it is often true, but not always.
For one thing, among the BattleMaster community, it has (whether for good or ill) become more or less accepted that a realm that attacks another realm without a clear provocation, purely for gain of whatever sort, is a villain. You can try to justify your attack all you want, but if there's no obvious reason for you to have attacked besides "we wants their lands, precious", you
will be labeled as a villain.
This is part of what has led to so much argumentation and word-twisting on the forums. People want to believe their characters, and their realms, are Good and True, but quite often, they do things that no one else can really accept are anything but Wrong. They can't accept this characterization of their own characters, because it conflicts with their own view of them (and of their own selves, from whom most characters are drawn), and so they try, over and over again, to explain why it really
was Right and Good and Necessary for Keplerstan to take half the regions from Victimlund.