"After that, people acted as people will," he says, "having never learned from what's gone before?"

How terribly, terribly sad. He knew his instincts about Wei Wuxian were correct. He isn't evil, he's not like Tom. His path was different, offbeat, perhaps, but it was not the one Tom and so many others have tread on their way here.

And he had access to power that others did not. That alone will doom you, sometimes. Especially if you're a person who is not like Tom was.