Talk:Foresight/@comment-2143738-20180828185703/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180828205305

I don't feel the need to say that they (nor even Earl Femel) were entirely responsible.

Clearly, this is all Jircniv's fault.

He could and should have approached Ainz without trying to test his 'resolve'. He knows well enough that Ainz single-handedly wiped out the Sunlight Scripture with essentially no preparation. It was a forgone conclusion that there was no way a few worker teams could do anything to Nazarick. He was just seeing if Ainz would really kill them for the trespass.

So that he could gauge how best to hold his own citizens and soldiers hostage to Ainz's unwillingness to simply kill everyone in the Empire.

Of course, Ainz is bluffing here, he really isn't willing to kill everyone in the Empire. But as long as Jircniv believes he would, he won't have to.

This is international politics 101, dealing with tyrants who are willing to murderously expend the lives of their own people to try and make their enemies feel guilty about it.