The only part of this I'm going to contest is the above claim that the Green Knight is "pretty evil". He isn't.
TL;DR: Gilles is one of the closest things the setting has to a Lawful Good Paladin. He was, during his time just a barbarian warlord like Sigmar who wanted to unite his people in the face of a common threat. Teaming up with the Lady and letting her empower his people was how he did that.
Long Version: The Green Knight is more "gray" than evil. Yes, he did help the Lady of the Lake manipulate Bretonnia, but I'd argue that Bretonnia also benefited in some ways from it. After all, the Lady gave Bretonnia its superhuman knights with bullet resistant armor and shields and its magic users both. Without those, Bretonnia might have been wiped out ages ago considering how often Greenskins, Beastmen, Vampires, and Chaos Warriors come knocking. So while the Lady of the Lake was basically using Bretonnia's people, they also in some ways benefitted from that I'd argue. And I think the Green Knight did what he did for exactly that reason; because he calculated that it would make Bretonnia stronger in the long run.
On top of that, the Lady also has a special kind of Heaven reserved for her ladies/damsels and knights when they die, which I'd say is a decent deal all things considered unless I'm missing something. Even male magic users get to become basically Grail Knight-esque bodyguards for her.
Plus, as the Green Knight he does come to his people's aid in times of need and fights to defend them from monsters like the Beastmen, and come the End Times he stepped up to lead his people outright. This suggests he cares about his people at least somewhat (it definitely doesn't seem consistent with an opportunistic jerk).
What is also worth bearing in mind, is the following:
1) Pre-End Times lore, no one knows who or what the Lady is exactly, not even Gilles. And even with ET lore, the Lady is strongly suggested to prefer humans to Elves, hence her empowering Bretonnians, making a special Heaven for them, and even making Louen her lover.
2) Sigmar had the Dwarfs to back his nascent Empire up when it fought Greenskins and later Nagash but the Bretonnians had no one but themselves. When the Lady of the Lake appeared before him and empowered Gilles to fight, there's little qualitative difference from Asuryan powering up Aenarion to fight Chaos or Ulric empowering Magnus the Pious (or for that matter Sigmar empowering his followers). Again, had the Bretonnians not been turned into superhuman knights by the Lady, they likely would have been steamrolled ages ago, meaning they did benefit from their relationship to the Lady in spite of the manipulative elements of it.
3) Finally, treating the Lady as evil because she is an Elven Goddess doesn't really work either. Not least of which because the Elven Gods and the human Gods are often the same, or else heavily implied to be (including the fairly obvious ones like the sea god Mathlann and Mannan, and Khaine being worshiped by humans who form assassin cults similar to what the Dark Elves do).
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