"The entire royal house was already killed once by the people. It was after they failed in keeping the Free Cities, they were wiped out. This royal house didn't keep the Free Cities and Solvunn from gaining independence, but I suspect they are hoping to get it all back."
It is a huge failure on the part of the leaders to lose more than half of the continent's land, with Nocwich and Feywilds already disconnected. They went from the ruling nation to hardly a power house. Thorne's rulers, he thinks, are more ambitious than they seem. The Queen may be tempestuous (understatement) but her uncle is a military leader. She isn't stupid.
"But that was about losing land. Thorne started the Summoning, everything that's happened since is their responsibility. If the people decide that was a mistake, that we're a mistake, it's their heads that will roll again." But also, maybe all of the Summoned. It isn't something to ignore. It is something to keep in the back of their minds if that starts to happen. Istredd isn't putting it as a priority.
"That's not the top of the list right now. The top of the list is that the Singularity may not only be the key to this sphere's magic and survival, but connected to the entire multiverse. An attack on it could be catastrophic, and even the possibility of that should be a top concern." It's not as if they have exact proof, although with the rifts opening, the gods reacting, and the changes in the continent, all tied to them but also to the Singularity's existence, woven in like veins to the makeup of this sphere.
"The Free Cities will move on the Singularity once they can guarantee they don't need magic anymore, and we don't know how far they are in that endeavor. If they take over Thorne, we won't have the power to stop them from destroying it. If we want to get rid of the royal house, we need someone powerful enough to replace them right away. Until then, we should not take that risk."
This is all something he and Geralt are on the same page. Istredd shakes his head.
"And let's be clear. Whoever we replace her with could be another version of her. This isn't our world. We don't have control over how it will react or work. There is never going to be a morally perfect option here."
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It is a huge failure on the part of the leaders to lose more than half of the continent's land, with Nocwich and Feywilds already disconnected. They went from the ruling nation to hardly a power house. Thorne's rulers, he thinks, are more ambitious than they seem. The Queen may be tempestuous (understatement) but her uncle is a military leader. She isn't stupid.
"But that was about losing land. Thorne started the Summoning, everything that's happened since is their responsibility. If the people decide that was a mistake, that we're a mistake, it's their heads that will roll again." But also, maybe all of the Summoned. It isn't something to ignore. It is something to keep in the back of their minds if that starts to happen. Istredd isn't putting it as a priority.
"That's not the top of the list right now. The top of the list is that the Singularity may not only be the key to this sphere's magic and survival, but connected to the entire multiverse. An attack on it could be catastrophic, and even the possibility of that should be a top concern." It's not as if they have exact proof, although with the rifts opening, the gods reacting, and the changes in the continent, all tied to them but also to the Singularity's existence, woven in like veins to the makeup of this sphere.
"The Free Cities will move on the Singularity once they can guarantee they don't need magic anymore, and we don't know how far they are in that endeavor. If they take over Thorne, we won't have the power to stop them from destroying it. If we want to get rid of the royal house, we need someone powerful enough to replace them right away. Until then, we should not take that risk."
This is all something he and Geralt are on the same page. Istredd shakes his head.
"And let's be clear. Whoever we replace her with could be another version of her. This isn't our world. We don't have control over how it will react or work. There is never going to be a morally perfect option here."