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Korva has a contract. It is, in some senses, a very stupid contract, which she kind of expects the Duchess de Chelam not to sign, but - she can't sign the other one.
She waits by the entryway after committees.
this contract doesn't so much have loopholes as not cover anything in the first place
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in-another-life
She's obviously going somewhere with this but - it's fair, wherever it is she's going with it, to want Carlota's account of it first.
"I spent a long time dwelling on it. Someone proposed to me, once, that we had no way of knowing what Hell was trying, that we were only as culpable as anyone who prolongs a civil war - but that is terrible enough alone, and - we did have ways of knowing what Hell was trying. We did not believe it, but what we saw was not what one would have seen in any other civil war. We could have guessed. I think that at times the questions got tangled, of whether we had good reason to hate our enemies and whether we ought to make peace with them -"
new-under-the-sun
She nods.
"A few months ago Cyprian approached me about aiding the Crusade against Razmiran. I am sure that I am not the first he approached, but some secret agreement I can only guess at bars the other archmages from participating. He explained to me the reason, that in this time of great crisis the Church has thrown so much of its strength at Razmiran, an ill which stood a long while while not really worsening.
During the Four Days' War - one can only guess at how, but can really get quite far by guessing - Razmiran fell into the hands of Mephistopheles."
a-bad-person
Elorri looks at the Lord Marshal. Did he know about this. Do they need to remobilize the Reclamation about it.
union-forever
proud-and-young
the-rest-is-up-to-us
for-a-job-well-done
It's not a lie. It might not be right but it's not a lie and she and Cyprian both believe it.
And a secret agreement... gods of Good, she really needs to find out what's wrong with Iomedae.
union-forever
"Given that Mephistopheles isn't telling anyone, why hasn't Cyprian told everyone?"
"...Lord Marshal, the people who are on mandatory downtime from assizes would largely experience a conventional war against a devil as downtime from assizes."
for-a-job-well-done
Hey, at least we skipped the one with the lich and the one that started the riot crisis response.
...Well, now instead of panicking he's contemplating whether he should have resigned his post with the Reclamation to go serve in the crusade against Razmiran.
third-of-that-name
"The war is not a very conventional one, and the parts which resemble a conventional war are thoroughly handled by Cyprian's forces." Whose replacement activities would be much worse than the Reclamation's replacement activities, a point which he assumes he does not need to make explicitly.
new-under-the-sun
Felandriel Morgethai sits back and surveys the chaos she has caused with the satisfaction of someone who is less than a third of the way through causing the chaos she has planned for the evening. "Archduke Requena, you ask a good question about Cyprian's silence, which I think I will answer in a moment, but there is further context I must first offer you all.
For a brief moment, the land of the false god was ruled by a true god - or near as makes no difference. And then, it transpired, during the baffling events of Arodus last, Mephistopheles was killed. Mostly by Ragathiel and the terrifying shadow cat, I think, though they had honorable assistance." She will tip her head to Alexeara. "This, of course, makes him temporarily much less able to project power on the Material. Until the Arodus upcoming."
Felandriel Morgethai is going to eat a samosa, delicately.
union-forever
"And the same agreement, no doubt, bars the Queen from participation as the archmages," Xavier says.
The question, then, will become how much of Cheliax's resources Xavier and Joan-Pau can use the Army and Foreign Relations Committees to throw at the problem before Arodus.
the-rest-is-up-to-us
On the positive side, they can credit Felandriel Morgethai as their source.
nothing-to-it
This adorable tiny dragon fae creature has flown down a pit fiend's throat and clawed it to death from the inside out! He preens.
Right, well, even with the antimagic field gone this seems like just about the highest priority on the Material, accounting for aprobability of success. Is there a remotely diplomatic way to ask the archmage why she isn't joining in on the crusade to pull Razmiran out of the hands of Hell itself?
union-forever
Because it means allying with Cyprian, and the forces of Good are incapable of pulling together under any circumstances whatseover.