Not personally, but I haven't heard any terrible things about him. Rather, I think he's simply trying to survive and keep what's left and inhabitable of this world afloat.

[ Alear can relate after his own world had been on the brink of destruction, and he's sure Edelgard can too from what she and the other house leaders had told him of their world. ]

I arrived just a few months ago. We came all of the sudden in a huge group. I don't think the locals were quite prepared, but it's not the first time I've traveled worlds ...or even through time.