Klaus found himself frowning, glancing away for a moment and he shrugged in a bit of irritation.

"I protect those bound to me, as best I can," he said. "I, certainly, am not the one killing them. They're too valuable to me for that, but I.." He was on the verge of saying too much. Backed off, remembered to be just the vampire, not the Original Hybrid.

"Younger vampires often want to curry favor, to do what can be done to gain status. I'm not dismissing them, or devaluing human armies, but war and world building is different in our world.