Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31113156-20170212105313

Figured I'd make a thread since I'm rather curious about what people did with the choice at the end of Zirantia, and why. Especially after seeing only very few people shared my decision on the dwarven diplomacy one ^^

As I understand it, the political stability of Zirantia is threatened by both the People's Action Party (PAP) and the National Action Party (NAP) with the former being a puppet of the Divine Claw and the latter being rather crass and subversive about their dealings with our delegation. Neither of these parties are really something Simon seems to care to support, and so you make some deals with the New Unionist Party (NUP)

What stands out here is what Simon says the NUP during their conversation, insisting they lack the political weight to throw around and really get things done, telling them to focus on expanding their party and the amount of support they have at their disposal rather than attempting to make grabs for power. In conclussion, the NUP isn't really ready at the time to make any big moves.

The PAP get's sabotaged quite heavily at the end with their leader being compromised, and this can mean several things in theory. The best outcome would be their party destabilizing and losing support, the worst outcome is they become more radical and Divine Claw losing the control of their puppet might also force their hand.

The NAP didn't really seem to get anything done, but they also didn't really lose anything, so they mostly seem to be a wildcard for now.

All in all this lead me to decide in favor of supporting the Old Zirantian League at the end, we can negotiate trade with their economy being more stable, and have a potentially ally in future conflicts with the Incubus Emperor (I doubt they'd be willing to do much versus Aram, but it's a possibility as well) The other parties seem mostly isolationist so having any of them take charge presumably means losing the support of Zirantia.

But perhaps most importantly the party we really want to support (or I did, anyway) needs more time to acquire political capital, and destablizing Zirantia seems like it would damage their chances.

And now for some random speculation at the end; I'm getting the feeling there's going to be some sort of revolt or uprising in Zirantia in the future, I'm just not sure we've seen the last of the Divine Claw and Biyue. 