"Probably better for my people, considering everything that came after." Whether by Black Rose or the hands of Zenos and Fandaniel, Garlemald never came out ahead in the end. Such was probably inevitably true of all the societies that Emet-Selch made into bringers of Calamities - Allag certainly came crashing down spectacularly in the end.

In response to the invitation, they give a perfunctory bow - a man of the theater to the end - before spinning to land one metal boot into the base of a nearby mirror. It shatters into so much glass, and the familiar armor shatters and falls along with it. Satisfaction radiates from Eula's whole body.