I'm sure she and Huaisang would be willing to talk terms. [Do Hamelin and McGillis get a say? Nope.
And then he gets to her... brother and she frowns, clearly a bit apprehensive.] He's... painfully honest. Honourable, righteous and very easily manipulated. He doesn't have the means to change the world on his own. I'm not even sure if he wants to, he's a follower of the church after-all.
Faerghus is a lot different from Adrestia or even Leicester. Following the doctrine of the church is unquestioned there, there's no room for heretics or dissidents against the system of nobility. They raise their children on poisonous ideals of chivalry, on how noble dying to serve your liege really is, on how honorable unquestioning loyalty is. We've spoken a few times about it, and he agrees that it got Glenn Royland Fraldarius killed, as well as countless other knights. But... still. He's young and idealistic, believing that everything can be solved if everyone just talked it out.
That's all what I thought, anyway. Supposedly he is... well, Hubert described him as mad with a thirst for blood. Hubert draws pictures of his father's mangled corpse in the corners of his workbooks, so understand that's not coming lightly. Dimitri apparently seeks vengeance against those who killed his father and my mother, and then pinned the crime on a neighbouring allied people, who were then subsequently annexed and had a genocide committed against them. [Her lip curls in disgust.] He believes it was my uncle, the man who murdered my siblings. He's right. And my uncle has made it so that I am culpable of everything he has done while we're "allied."
Lucky for everyone involved, I have no interest in keeping that man alive any longer. Between everything I've gained from the Beldam's little game, and the possibility of an alliance with the Alliance and the prince of Faerghus... I have no need of him. So, I imagine his head will be a valuable bargaining chip for winning the prince over to our side.
Whether that means an alliance with all of Faerghus is possible, however, is another matter. I doubt it. They love Dimitri because he is a return to tradition after an era of upheaval. Most of his vassals will rebel if he declares on my side of the war. But his classmates are at least loyal to him, so we'll see.
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I'm sure she and Huaisang would be willing to talk terms. [Do Hamelin and McGillis get a say? Nope.
And then he gets to her... brother and she frowns, clearly a bit apprehensive.] He's... painfully honest. Honourable, righteous and very easily manipulated. He doesn't have the means to change the world on his own. I'm not even sure if he wants to, he's a follower of the church after-all.
Faerghus is a lot different from Adrestia or even Leicester. Following the doctrine of the church is unquestioned there, there's no room for heretics or dissidents against the system of nobility. They raise their children on poisonous ideals of chivalry, on how noble dying to serve your liege really is, on how honorable unquestioning loyalty is. We've spoken a few times about it, and he agrees that it got Glenn Royland Fraldarius killed, as well as countless other knights. But... still. He's young and idealistic, believing that everything can be solved if everyone just talked it out.
That's all what I thought, anyway. Supposedly he is... well, Hubert described him as mad with a thirst for blood. Hubert draws pictures of his father's mangled corpse in the corners of his workbooks, so understand that's not coming lightly. Dimitri apparently seeks vengeance against those who killed his father and my mother, and then pinned the crime on a neighbouring allied people, who were then subsequently annexed and had a genocide committed against them. [Her lip curls in disgust.] He believes it was my uncle, the man who murdered my siblings. He's right. And my uncle has made it so that I am culpable of everything he has done while we're "allied."
Lucky for everyone involved, I have no interest in keeping that man alive any longer. Between everything I've gained from the Beldam's little game, and the possibility of an alliance with the Alliance and the prince of Faerghus... I have no need of him. So, I imagine his head will be a valuable bargaining chip for winning the prince over to our side.
Whether that means an alliance with all of Faerghus is possible, however, is another matter. I doubt it. They love Dimitri because he is a return to tradition after an era of upheaval. Most of his vassals will rebel if he declares on my side of the war. But his classmates are at least loyal to him, so we'll see.