Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
Didn't Erenville downplay his relationship with her in the dinner scene? Plus Ilberd used to be friends with Raubahn and we saw how that worked out for him.

And the invasion thing makes it worse. It means we're going as kingmaker to a country we've never been to in order to install someone who will serve our political interests. We're doing a colonialism, and just because the person we're installing insures us they are into that sort of thing doesn't make it right. There are four contestants, only one wants to conquer us. Is no one even gonna ask why she has to travel to a continent where no one knows who she is to get help in this contest?

This is dumb. We are doing a dumb. And hopefully, we are doing a dumb so the story can teach us why it's dumb to do what we're doing.
Do you...do this often? Interpret things differently then they are presented? The country we are going to ENCOURAGES this sort of thing, on the reasoning that being able to navigate and secure assistance from a foreign body is a necessary part of ruling a kingdom. Our claimant is officially endorsed, meaning we're backing one candidate in a way said kingdom encourages, not 'installing' or *shudders* doing a colonization. Further no one just accepted without hesitation, no one has said yes yet, it is literally stated that we are going to see the place for ourselves and make up our mind when we get there. That's not even subtext, it's straight up text. Erenville is going because of the golden city, Krile is going because of her grandfather, and the twins are going because we're going. The only two set on backing anyone are Thancred and Urianger and they probably have a lot more intel than we do.