So? Find a way to make it work. If the players really want it to happen, then they have to work together to make it happen. One side doesn't get to sit back and say "Well, we'd really like to not wipe you out, by it's my character. You know, I can't really control him, and he wants to wipe you out, so... tough luck."
If you want to save Melhed, then find a way. Will it come back to bite you later? Maybe. But then you have a built in enemy, the next time you need one. And, really, it's a game. Who cares? If you don't like the way it's going, then change it.
As has been said by Lorgan a few times, noone really want them to live (among Thalmarkin obviously), at least noone vocal enough to say it.
Maybe it will work, maybe it won't. You won't know unless you try.
Well, we did try. 3 times actually. It didnt work.
Of course Thalmarkin can always give them a 4th and 83rd chance, but it just starts to seem riddiculous.
Yep. It happens. I've had my part in killing several. I just don't like hearing "I don't want to" or "It sucks that we have to", when nobody is actually trying to NOT do it.
I dont see the problem. I wish we had not come to a place where we had to kill Melhed. Beluaterra needs more realms, not less. But we are not gonna go against any possible reasonable IG action just to make them live. I wish we werent forced to do it, but we are. It is same as with the epic RCs Melhed have. I wish we didnt have to destroy them, but its much better than the option.