Talk:Ramposa III/@comment-61.6.235.124-20180415142538/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180522094506

Well, it's probably because Renner didn't want the Kingdom saved.

After all, it would have made a lot of sense for the King to reach out to AOG and make friendly overtures before Demiurge could settle on the Empire as a more valuable ally. Then why didn't this happen? I can only think that Renner worked behind the scenes to keep that from becoming a priority until it was too late.

Renner seems to secretly hate her own country, or at least the nobility. Jircniv believes she is not really trying to push her reforms through (which seems like an accurate assessment), thus the most likely interpretation of proposing them is as a way of inciting discontent and hatred against the nobility for refusing to make life better for the people (there is also the issue of making herself look good to Climb and Blue Rose, but surely she'd look even better by succeeding more often). Not that she could be the sole reason the Re-Estize Kingdom is so screwed up...I think she came to hate the nobility in the first place because they screwed up her country so badly already.

In other words, she's developed quite a bit further down the path that Raeven has secretly considered, of destroying the Kingdom just to spite those fools ruining it already. Actually, it would make sense if she had swung Raeven fully to that view after the Katze Plains.

Thus Renner would have distracted Ramposa from establishing contact with AOG by having him focus on the idea of further strengthening the Royalist faction being necessary for the future of the Kingdom. She probably gave him that nonsensical line about it being so important to save the people of E-Rantel and the surrounding villages from being handed over to AOG, whom as far as Ramposa should have known was the only significant player in the area who actually gave a shit about saving them from being slaughtered.

She probably also influenced the decision to send Barbaro somewhere "safe". If he had stayed near the King, it would have been very difficult to kill him without making it obvious that the King was intentionally being spared in contrast. By sending him off to personally offend Ainz, she ensured his death.