User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 368: The Third Seal, Predictions./@comment-5840892-20140120191618/@comment-7418318-20140120201700

I wouldn't call him an outright villain who's already fully corruped just yet. I think he's still in the process of slipping.

He was a good person who relished in helping others from the start. Back then he didn't seek power, but ended up with it anyway through circumstance mostly out of his control. When he gained the power of his first Djinn, he saw how much more he could help people and that's probably why he kept amassing power at first.

But now he's slowly slipping into depravity, but isn't quite there yet. And in some way he even recognized it, when he asked Ja Far if he was a bad person for manipulating Kougyoku during the Sindaria arc.

That feeling was then further solidified (almost cemented) when Sinbad killed the banker and the way he was partially bathed in white and black rukh and used both together. "You are falling into depravity?" were the bankers words if I remember correctly. Not fallen, but falling as in still in the process.

Personally I hope Alibaba and Aladdin will realize this before his fall is complete, will try to keep him in the light, but will ultimately fail and be forced to fight him as the "end-boss" of the series.

Thinking back on the banker thing, Sinbad also told that banker that he was alread cursed by a stronger curse than the one of the Al Tharmen member. With the way he was destined for greatness and how many mages felt something when Sinbad was born, I wonder if he might have been cursed, rather than blessed, from birth.