Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-2600:6C40:467F:FF2E:F8E5:C2FB:C0DC:1FF1-20190528200442/@comment-31763506-20190529180247

NoelMittUns wrote: Then again Kaskia betrays the deal she gets with Simon, so she may not be that "usable". It's hard to get far with people who backstab just because they can.

In a very narrow defense of Kaskia, just because she immediately backstabs Simon on their deal doesn't necessarily mean she's not being pragmatic or isn't an unreliable ally in most situations. Her primary interest and most of her allies are in the Church of Ivala, which doesn't have a whole lot of use for Simon institutionally. She probably calculated that a long term working relationship with Simon was a net negative instead of a positive owing to the suspicion it would engender from other Priestesses. Cutting an ally loose as soon as they are no longer useful in the long term is kinda Machiavelli 101.

On the main subject I tend to come down in favor of Esmera.