Talk:Calca Bessarez/@comment-2600:1700:BCD0:CC10:FCD6:90A4:6C6D:D970-20180817121405/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180817200426

No, it's always easier to work through an existing ruler as long as they are accomodating.

But Calca wasn't. She was determined to avoid civil war (which is clearly necessary to purge the anti-SK elements), and if it had come to civil war she'd have been on the wrong side. She was simply too closely aligned personally and politically to the most anti-SK elements of the Holy Kingdom power structure.

A significant part of the reason she was able to be Queen in the first place was as a sop to those determined to keep the "Holy" in Holy Kingdom of Roble. For just that reason, she could have been an amazing asset if she'd thrown in with Nazarick, but instead she was merely biding her time until she secured the border with the Abelion Hills and made an alliance with the Theocracy (the difficulty being that the Theocracy is insufficiently doctrinaire about human supremacy in the view of the people of the Holy Kingdom).