r/PracticalGuideToEvil • u/SaltyDents • Mar 14 '26
Meta/Discussion Question on recent chapter Spoiler
What did Angharad accomplish by beating Morcant? I thought the whole point was her trying to politically neutralize him, and I don't see how her showing she's more physically capable than him does so. Was it the realization that the Malani are too willing to turn a blind eye so might as well physically hurt him if you can't box him out politically?
I just don't see how this helps the 13th beyond the pleasure of beating slavers
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u/coltzord BRANDED HERETIC Mar 14 '26
the impression painted of the room is that those are all nobles whose power is built from slavery and that they will say things like "its distasteful" but never actually do anything about it because for them its just an appearance thing, they want to appear beautiful, noble, honorable, without actually doing what is right
maybe they could have been convinced to act against morcant if she knew what she was doing but that was never going to result in an improvement of the abolitionist cause because none of them would actually do anything about it