Re-Reading "Hortus de Escapismo" to see how bad the anti-Sarkaz racism is
It's pretty bad, but someone was trying to tell me that this event was proof that Laterans agreed with Oren's actions.
No, Oren himself says to an enraged Lemuen, "You're angry that I violated the purity of your faith. That proves you're thinking as a Lateran." In other words, his actions would be considered heinous to his people.
Oren admits that even if he had the authority to deploy 50 soldiers in secret without needing to get anyone's permission or explain himself, he could never get away with ordering the massacre of a bunch of civilian Sarkaz. He was desperately hoping to find or manufacture some excuse that even the pope wouldn't be able to challenge.
The soldiers arrived after Executor did, so they had not spent any time scouting the abbey and seeing the true nature of "the enemy" as a bunch of starving refugees. Oren almost certainly lied to them to get them eager to kill 'enemy Sarkaz combatants' to 'liberate hostage Lateran citizens'. They were operating off of intel from Oren and from Spuria.
(Spuria agreed to help Oren, but she's constantly threatening to sell him out because he did NOT properly inform her what the situation actually was, and she does NOT want to go down with him.)
Once Lemuen and Executor catch Oren, he confesses to everything in a last, desperate bid to convince them to let him carry out the attack.
When they refuse to let him murder the Sarkaz, Oren gives up. He has no faith he can defeat Lemuen and Executor, and any resistance would only make his punishment worse.
