Absolutely. The only night elves that have tolerated or accepted his situation are those that are working neutrally with the Cenarion Circle or in their own special interests outside the faction war. There are many night elves that would be repulsed and maybe even confused to see a sin’dorei practice druidism. Some old farts like @isei-silva ‘s Buerghes may even still firmly believe that druidism belongs only to the Kal’dorei. But then there are other wise old kal’dorei like his teacher, Polaris Raventhorn, who does not question whom Mother Moon chooses to anoint.
After a failed attempt to grow a copy of an Arcan’dor in Eldrethalas, taking advantage of the ley lines there but failing to take into account the fel corruption still lingering, Beurghes decides to cut his loses – and loose ends. He set off to kill the Highborne that had worked with him on the experiment, and hoped to get rid of Mythandos all the same. He no longer needed the Nighborne as well.
Ahead of time he had called for the Sentinels under a false claim of a ‘Horde spy’ had been spotted in the city and certainly a danger to those there, Beurghes hoping that the Sentinels would corner Mythandos and blame him for the carnage. But Mythandos had caught up to Beurghes and after the double crossing reveal a scuffle ensued. Mythandos had a hidden blade and managed to land a strike, stabbing the rampaging lion in the eye.
Being addicted to mana now after his stay in Suramar and indulging recklessly has left Beurghes with compromised healing abilities. His body is in inner turmoil between the arcane energies and his nature magics, unable to find balance one trying to constantly dominate the other and ending up volatile when using his spells. There is a definite strength to his spells when on the offensive, don’t get me wrong, but it’s like tossing around grenades with the strength of a small nuke – too much bang for its intended purpose.
When healing, however, this unsteady reaction often means that the arcane flowing through him ends up chaotic and in violent disarray over the magic of nature he actual wants to use. It won’t get far before short circuiting and crumbling after a certain point. Beurghes is unable to heal himself properly. That’s why he covers his ruined eye, there is only a ghastly wound of gnarled half-healed flesh with angry arcane lines cracking through the folds.
It is also why he is more desperate than ever to grow some kind of copy Arcan’dor he can use. If the tree is the perfect balance of Nature and Arcane, then perhaps it’ll help bring the same to himself before he literally falls apart.
You’d have to assume Beurghes would care about anyone enough ever to really spare a thought to someone other than himself at any given moment. Short answer; it wouldn’t matter to him whether someone is evil by themselves or by society, it has nothing to do with him. It doesn’t affect him in the long run.
Aside that he doesn’t see what he does as evil. Not in Azeroth’s definition of evil, of demons and monsters and world-scale catastrophies and corrupt deviants bent on taking/destroying the world. He does what he does for himself and would rather not needlessly involve those that don’t need to be. People are better off his business when they’re happy living their own little lives.
So, by nature or nurture they just better not get in his way.
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