This is a fucking act of war is it not? Once he finds out that is, our beloved top aint that stupid especially right after battling his own brother
He’s so deep in the bigot hole that he cannot comprehend how anyone could feel affection, protectiveness, loyalty, or love for an omega, so even though he’s making a major overstep tantamount to a declaration of war, he doesn’t think Hanu will protest since he’s basically giving them an “upgrade” by sending a precious alpha princess to replace a lowly omega.
He is also willfully ignorant of the culture of the country he’s dealing with. Alphas may be considered better and more desirable in Romeridall, but for Hanu he is essentially trying to take away a divine envoy of god and replace him with a normal woman.
Even if there were no emotional attachments, nobody in Hanu would willingly trade an omega spouse for anyone else unless they were in love with them. On top of that, Ilya is a beloved ruler for everything he did to take care of the people of Hanu during the chaotic times.
If the citizens learned about the attempted swap, much less what Thorne is trying to do to Ilya afterwards, they would fucking riot in the streets and start marching to Romeridall if Khalid didn’t declare war first
Ngl on that first half I thought you were talking about Khalid instead of Ilya's older brother lol
So he's gonna be the next king? What kind of dumbass is he? The person he's taking hostage of is a freaking queen, like wtf dude? Where is your brain, you're already struggling as it is, now you're gonna bring a whole new problem to your country?