It's the love that could have spare you a lot of mess, but it didn't come to you by the time it was still possible to save something.
That reminds me of a vague thought I had about Süleyman and Radu in so far as by the time Radu was born Süleyman had been alone for far too long for one idealistic child to make a difference and Radu wasn’t nearly mature enough by the time everything fell into place for the rebellion to save anyone. Dependent on characterisation at least it might work to say that Radu ran out of time while Süleyman had run out of hope. Which might work just as well for Dietrich and Isaak where Isaak was completely disillusioned by the time he met Dietrich and Dietrich was too young to make a difference and that having a knock-on effect meant that Dietrich was completely insane by the time he met Radu. Of course if Isaak had managed to contain Dietrich’s amorality and Dietrich hadn’t then been completely deranged by the time he met Radu then Radu’s idealism might have been kick-started again allowing him to go back to Byzantium with an effective plan that would have allowed Süleyman to off Seth anyway, in effect pushing forward the date of world annihilation. Or possibly causing the Orden to reinvent itself as monster slayers and set themselves on a campaign to rid the world of all the Nightlords which would culminate in AX being rendered redundant and Süleyman being crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
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That reminds me of a vague thought I had about Süleyman and Radu in so far as by the time Radu was born Süleyman had been alone for far too long for one idealistic child to make a difference and Radu wasn’t nearly mature enough by the time everything fell into place for the rebellion to save anyone. Dependent on characterisation at least it might work to say that Radu ran out of time while Süleyman had run out of hope. Which might work just as well for Dietrich and Isaak where Isaak was completely disillusioned by the time he met Dietrich and Dietrich was too young to make a difference and that having a knock-on effect meant that Dietrich was completely insane by the time he met Radu. Of course if Isaak had managed to contain Dietrich’s amorality and Dietrich hadn’t then been completely deranged by the time he met Radu then Radu’s idealism might have been kick-started again allowing him to go back to Byzantium with an effective plan that would have allowed Süleyman to off Seth anyway, in effect pushing forward the date of world annihilation. Or possibly causing the Orden to reinvent itself as monster slayers and set themselves on a campaign to rid the world of all the Nightlords which would culminate in AX being rendered redundant and Süleyman being crowned Holy Roman Emperor.