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In the original quest, Shup initially seemed to be the bad guy, but it turns out he was trying to fix the problems that the real bad guy caused. An insane man painted magical pictures of four women, all of whom were in a horrible situation. Shup set out to find them, bring them to the Kingdom, and marry them all, giving them the best life they could. The first three wives went perfectly fine, and their paintings became happy as could be. Lily, however, had met Fen, and was in love with him. Furthermore, her portrait, while it did smile, it was a frightened smile, as the animated skeleton of a kobold (Chee) stood in the background. Despite Shup's best attempts to help Lily out, she still loved Fen, and Shup had know way of knowing about Chee nor saving Lily from her. Eventually, the painting somehow managed to destroy itself (Shup never found out the exact cause, just that he never did it himself, and that Lily never saw the portrait), and Fen took it upon himself to try and fix the image. He asked Cheelop to never harm Lily, and the skeleton vanished from the portrait, but it was otherwise unchanged. It wasn't until Shup finally stepped down and let Fen have Lily as his own wife that the portrait became fixed.
So, yes, Shup is supposed to be one of the better nobles, and people are just being weird. Yes, Old Shup kept his own King imprisoned, but he was trying to find a way to reveal that the false king was a false king. Simply bring the true King to the palace would not prove anything.
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