paxxton wrote...
Rosewind wrote...
HellishFiend wrote...
RavenEyry wrote...
Saren was a tremendous ***hole long before finding Sovereign, but was definitely more a racist anti-hero than a villain.
Yeah, but I've given up trying to convince people of that. They just need to read the first novel to get it.
Or pay attention to what people say in the game.
He believed he was doing the right thing. Even if it was bad, that doesn't make him an evil person. Rather a tragic one. I hope that makes sense to you. 
Just wanted to jump in here and say, Saren was actually brutal, he would take out an entire village to get to his quarry, and to show how cold and calculating he is, when he met up with Anderson and Kahlee at Grissoms home, he wanted to kill them but realised there was the possibility of witnesses nearby, and did not want to risk losing his spectre status by causing an interspecies incident, he also used Kahlee as bait and watched as the convoy taking her to safety was attacked, he did not care if she died so long as Skar showed up, Skar was a krogan merc that Saren was hunting, nah, Saren is no anti-hero, he's just a cold calculating murderer with a badge, but I do still take the paragon route with him, I love to watch him put a bullet through his own head.