tbh the reason people love and are quick to forgive Ulthane and Azrael is because they genuinely regret the part they played in humanity’s demise and they do what they can to help and fix their mistake.
Though that’s mainly because we’re here the outsiders watching the story play out. We know they’d been manipulated and that they’re sorry.
It would probably be a whole other story for the humans in the Darksiders universe. They’d experienced the Apocalypse first hand. They’d seen their friends, family and everyone around them get cut down, slowly wither away or just disappear one day while scavenging. There’d still be humans that would take Ulthane’s side at least, because of Haven. But if even they completely forgive him is also up for debate. That is, if they even know what he did.
So I’m trying to cobble together a full timeline of everything that happened in the Darksiders games, comics, and novel, but since this franchise was clearly conceived by a comic book writer and consequently has a timeline that looks more like a pretzel than a straight line, all I can remember from the Abomination Vault novel is this:
Well, time to read the book again. This time while taking notes.