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We sling the word around a lot. Gehn was mad. Veovis was mad. Sirrus and Achenar were mad. Saavedro was mad. It can be very comforting to believe that only a lunatic would disagree with you, or that only mad people do bad things...but it isn't true. I want to look at the evidence.
Was Gehn mad?
He believed that he could write worlds into existence. On the evidence before him, this isn't actually an extravagant assumption. Possibly if his D'ni education had been completed, he would have been convinced otherwise, but what happened happened, and so it goes. He believed that creating an Age meant that he owned that Age, and all the people in it were his subjects. As a Brit I can point to an entire country full of people who believed that purely on the basis of their having sailed to another nation in ships and planted a flag. It's exceedingly unlikely that they were all insane. He believed that he had the right to do whatever he wished, and that anyone who stood in his way, even his own son, was to be brushed aside. Here we start to border on some degree of megalomania, but it's by no means extreme; many very sane people have lived their whole lives on the basis that they were somehow superior beings. All that we know of Gehn, from the various sources that make up canon, indicates that he was troubled with doubts. He had a volatile temper, which sprang from a deep-rooted insecurity caused, I think, by the trauma of his youth. He clung to a lost colonial past, as many elderly conservatives in this country have done. But on the evidence, I do not believe he was mad.
Was Veovis mad?
Again, I see no evidence of that. He was, in a very real sense, a racist, and the events of the BoT pushed him into extremism, but as someone else has said in another thread, he was used by A'Gaeris (whose sanity is definitely in question) to further a goal he would never have conceived. It's harder to say in his case, because we have so much less evidence, but I'd say that for most of BoT he was, by any normal standards, sane.
Were Sirrus and Achenar mad?
Well, maybe. In Myst and Exile they certainly come across that way, but in Revelation the portrayal is more nuanced, and I think puts the verdict in doubt. They were spoiled, certainly, and immature and careless of who they hurt, but again, that is not in itself proof of insanity. One thing I'm not sure of is whether they were influenced in some way by Gehn. I can't see how, but I seem to recall some hint to that effect in one of the games. I wouldn't rule out a touch of madness in their case, but I would be loth to commit myself (or, indeed, them) on the basis of what I've seen.
Was Saavedro mad?
No. Driven, certainly, obsessed, yes, very very angry for a very long time, absolutely, but for good and sufficient reason. His assumptions were all quite logical, if completely up the creek, and while we wouldn't applaud his actions, who among us can say we wouldn't be inclined to strike back at someone who had done that to us?
The problem with determining all these people's SAN scores is that set against them we have the almost supernatural sanity of Atrus, who is so rational it's almost a form of madness in itself. Compared to Atrus, you and I could be thought to be mad. Well, you, anyway. 
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