>>106716985There's a lot of ways you can spin the summit session. Ultimately it makes sense for Viren to overstep and be too pragmatic for everyone's own good, but the way it got there was empty.
Does anyone think to say "We can join forces, but we will not invade first"? If they are meant to be seen as stupid, why is the music uplifting as if they've just made the right call? Why does Viren give up after his story's refuted, when there is so much more he can say if he puts his mind to it? No other ruler gave him a reason not to unite; he had all the momentum to keep trying.
No one there has to be perfectly rational or make all the smart calls, but there should be better reason for why they don't. Viren can have excuses like fear, pragmatism and hubris - but those don't feel fully connected to how it turned out, and his peers at the summit have even less. The child queen just says "lolno" and everyone else is a blatant wuss.
