Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
No need to kill her, we don't really kill the tempered anymore. Instead we invite them to conferences so they can (big shock) attempt to summon their primal and convert everyone .
As much as folks give Lyse crap about that, it's not as though they just opened the doors to them. They took plenty of precautions to avoid a summoning. In a game of security versus intrigue, one side is going to win out over the other, and this time intrigue won - the danger came not from the delegates, but from the tempered HUMANS that they had secretly installed.

Also, it was not unreasonable to try to negotiate with the Dreamers. Tempered individuals CAN be reasoned with. Their ultimate loyalty will always be to their Primal, but that doesn't mean that they're mindless berserkers. They work in the best interests of their Primal, and if the best interests of their Primal is to lay low and cooperate with the heathens, that's just what they'll do - at least, until they see a moment to gain the upper hand. This would even work with the Amal'ja, if Ul'dah could gain a sufficiently strong hand against them. Given the choice between curbing their rapacious tempering habits and being wiped off the map, they could likely be convinced to ease off on the kidnapping a while.

Lyse and the others wanted to avoid open warfare with the Dreamers, and given that Lakshmi's MO is more along the lines of allowing her followers to wallow in a false paradise, rather than active conquest, there was every reason to believe that a peaceful solution could be reached. Unfortunately, their leader had a personal grudge with the Warrior of Light, due to our breaking the Dream and causing her faux daughter to disappear. She wasn't after conquest, per say, but revenge, and saw the tempering of all the alliance leaders as a great way to get that revenge.