...Perhaps. I would have sought out my vengeance, if myself or my loved ones had been harmed by them.

[In further 'hypotheticals': ]

In the legend I spoke of, the woman who had been marked as a witch embraced that mantle of evil. She was blamed for all of the ugliness and evil in the world- and so she accepted that. If she was to be condemned to be only seen as a witch, then she would live as a witch.

...I wonder, maybe it is more similar to those Knights than I thought.