The Inquisition's power only holds if they are viewed as light image. Destroy that legitimacy and they are vastly out numbered and dreadfully outgunned. How do you think Clyntahn ended in our seijins' hands? I don't think it was solely Merlin's doing.
I wonder if Rayno betrayed Clyntahn to Helm Cleaver as the price of allowing Duchairn and Magwair to reorganize the CoGA? He might have offered to assist to save the CoGA and save lives. Saving the CoGA also means saving the Inquisition. Sure, it's power will be trimmed back, but it would still exist to safeguard orthodoxy.
Magwair will take the truce in order to prepare the CoGA better. Duchairn will do it to actually reform the Church. Stonahr will do it to rebuild his nation and get some territorial concessions.....Silkiah. The Inner Circle will do it to further generate legitimacy for the CoC and EoC in the eyes of Safehold.
n7axw wrote:PeterZ wrote:Alright, then. The RDN Western Fleet is rendered ineffective in April 898. That means South Harchong cannot ship their output via the Western Gulf. They have to use canals and ship into Gorath via the Eastern Gulf. Pretty soon even that route will be cut off. By the time the GM arrives at the Dohlar Bank, the ICN will have stopped all traffic from Howard to Haven.
The MH will begin feeling the pinch as they deploy further South. More of their troops will depend on supplies going through Dairnyth. Should those locks be destroyed, the MH has to rely on the Holy Langhorne. If the Allied forces send an attack up the Transhar River, the MH has to deploy to defend the Bedard Canal. That might mean an insufficient strategic reserve to successfully counter an attack up North.
If Rainbow Waters recognizes this soon enough, might he succeed in persuading Magwair to seek a truce?
It might depend on Clyntahn's status, doesn't it... Last we saw, Clyntahn is in the hands of the seijins about to be introduced to the archangels. It certainly is possible that a ceasefire could be in the offing if Clyntahn has disappeared and no longer in control of Zion.
Some of that might depend on if the inquisition can carry on without him.
Don
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