Talk:Philippa Eilhart/@comment-70.68.221.255-20180831224150

"We wish to rule, yes. Where is the fault in that? Everyone wants to rule, and I know how to do that better than any other monarch in this city."

No, you don't Phillipa. You assassinated a guy hailed as "The Just" and turned his son into a madman fanatically devoted to destroying everything you ever represented. Even more than the machinations between Emhyr and Radovid YOU are responsible for basically everything bad in the Northern Kingdoms and more than that you actively sabotaged one of the last best hopes you had just to be in control, something you think you know better than to do and your justification for going behind the backs of the monarchs you pretend to advise. You and your Lodge ruled through proxies because you don't know how to actually lead and when your machinations blow up in your face you don't know how to admit to yourself - let alone the angry mob you might have created - that for all your education and experience in a mage's extended lifespan you weren't as smart as you think you are and are more stubbornly committed to your ways even if it's a losing strategy than the most bullheaded naïve spoiled aristocrat. If you can't take the heat for your decisions you are NOT fit to make them for others, particularly not if you're going to leave them to put out your fires.