Talk:Barbro Andrean Ield Ryle Vaiself/@comment-27.109.92.153-20180212125832/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180522100112

Barbro was unnecessary, because he's an idiot. That's illustrated very clearly. The SK has more to gain from inciting a civil war in which the royal faction will be widely seen as being morally justified, as they are doing in the Holy Kingdom of Roble. But with Barbro as the King, there is no chance that the anti-royal faction would be in the wrong, making the casus belli for intervention by the SK less clearly just.

However, Renner did not overtly ask Ainz to kill him. Instead, it seems that she influenced Ramposa to send Barbro on a supposedly less dangerous assignment (using those supporting his successsion to suggest it), secretly knowing that staying next to the King would have put in one of the few safe places on the battlefield.