kuriglavo

and it was all a dream ass ending

the previous kings were puppets of the council. if they held all the power, there had to be a reason to keep the king as a figurehead. which is obviously because they run dragon temples, and the king is believed to be the bloodline of the dragon.

the people won’t accept anyone on the throne who isn’t descended from that bloodline. so what the fuck is the duke’s plan for after they kill the king? your main seat of political power (the temple) is disgraced. you’ve got a shit ton of new vassal states that you don’t have any leverage over. the people don’t recognize you as a legitimate ruler and you don’t have an army. it’s gonna be the fastest dissolution of a kingdom in history lol

also why hasn’t the king bought out the newspapers? the council can’t undermine your competency without damaging their own legitimacy, and the “strategic genius” can’t use this to his advantage? they frame you and send a cease and desist and you’re just like, “damn they got us”

for that matter, why are they all so scared of the poison? it needs to be ingested and smells very strongly. and there’s no fucking way the duke could force the king to eat it, not when they needed to trick a servant to poison the prince’s not-yet-true regas. the antidote doesn’t matter because your greatest advantage is that the council thinks you don’t know about the poison. just pretend to get sick and take advantage of their complacency like christ i thought you were supposed to be smart

“this’ll be over in a month”? yeah fucking right lol. the two “masterminds” are fucking boneheads