If the Dark One was around.....

[Ascendancy]

.....would you join up or stay with the Light?

I struggle with deciding for Nikolai. In the end, I think he would go Forsaken because he would be appalled by the conditions the other Forsaken rule in and he would think he could do so much better as a ruler and set out on some war to conquer everything himself. No matter the cost.

And if serving the dark one was the trade off, so be it.