Talk:Zanac Valleon Igana Ryle Vaiself/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180522091427

If Zanac had been a little smarter he could have asked Gazaf to head out with an envoy to confirm AOG's claims and ability to enforce them.

If it meant putting an end to the annual war with the Empire which was draining probably 10-20 percent of their harvest efficiency by drawing off the military aged farmhands that are most critical to that heavy labor, then giving up E-Rantel should have been a viable concession in exchange for AOG guaranteeing an end to future hostilities.

He could even have ingratiated himself to AOG while dinging the Empire by demanding that the Empire match the Re-Estize Kingdom's territorial contributions to the SK.

Instead, they ended up putting the intel of the only person with any actual knowledge of AOG in last place behind the ignorant speculations of every single noble who knew nothing of AOG, magic, or actual combat, and a major military disaster was the obvious result.

That said, since Renner obviously knew the score and was completely on board with Demiurge's plan to use the Kingdom's army as a demonstration of Nazarick's might, if Zanac were smart enough to derail her plan he'd probably be deader than his brother in short order.