Her grief and rage had transformed into genocidal determination that persisted even after the actual perpetrators had been hunted down and killed through extensive operations. Justice for the specific criminals wasn't enough to satisfy her need for revenge.
Adrian understood his aunt's pain intimately because he shared it. He hated his mother's killers with a passion that sometimes threatened to consume him entirely. The injustice of losing someone so pure and good to such senseless violence created wounds that would never fully heal.
But that hatred for the specific murderers didn't mean that the entire dark elf race deserved extermination. This wasn't how justice or morality worked, no matter how much emotional satisfaction collective punishment might provide.
