Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20160727023152/@comment-67.66.95.68-20160816091158

What I'm saying is, "It's fantasy!!!!" is piss poor logic when all we've got on who she was as Neomaria is, "She was excellent at following orders WITHOUT QUESTION and killing people." Gast had people skills, using your example. This is very much a case of, "Show, don't tell" and I think it's fair to question it and wonder if Mothy paid attention to his own story or is just hoping to handwave this way using, "It's fantasy." I'm not saying it has to adhere to real world logic, but Mothy does take into account some of that real world logic at times. Even with your example of Gast, didn't that take years? And a prodigy, again, does not a general make, especially when, again, merit is not the only reason someone should be given a position. If he took into account trust and all a spy would have to go through and the suspicions that could appear around them in Ney, he sure as hell could with Mariam and to not do that would be downright sloppy.