Talk:Remedios Custodio/@comment-123.184.76.199-20180516163005/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180518184721

Actually, it was the fact that the ideology she followed made declaring the Holy Kingdom a vassal of the Sorcerer King basically impossible.

For the Re-Estize Kingdom, the problem is merely political, but even so they will have to have their nobility purged harshly. But the ideology of the Holy Kingdom, which Remedios does indeed symbolize, had to be broken by shattering the faith of the people in its protection.

So yes, that cause, which inevitably made her enemies she could never hope to beat or even meaningfully resist, did indeed betray her.

If her ideology had really been to avoid the loss of ANY lives, then it wouldn't have required Jaldaboath to appear at all. Simply having the Sorcerer King take over the Abelion Hills and offer to put a permanent end to further invasions would have been sufficient to make peace. But Remedios, like most of the "smallfolk", couldn't have accepted that. It would imply that the only reason to kill demihumans (and heteromorphs) would be if they actually did something wrong, rather than because it was wrong for them to exist at all.