The Ice Lady is a distraction. An interesting distraction, but still a distraction. I would rather we succeed at this mission and don't see here again for years than to try some dumb long shot that fucks the mission up because it's our only opportunity to talk to her.
Hes also going to be a southern tribesmen?
And they clearly dont consider us a threat given their response to the Cyan warning them about how evil.the Imperials were.
Utter dismissal
That's about the response I expected
Well yeah we're not a threat because the empire doesn't go that far south either. This isn't that far south though, this is right in a place that the Imperials are empirically willing to operate in, so all "if you DO happen to run into lowlanders" concerns apply.
I question how one more combatant on our side would fuck up the mission. I actually don't see that as possible. Maybe if near the end she went on a killing spree and killed all the wounded barbs we were going to question. But that seems like a really long shot.
And if they dont consider us a threat
They don't consider us a threat to the southern tribes as entities because we aren't a threat so long as they southern tribes stay in southern tribe territory. So long as they aren't completely ignorant about the empire however, then their assumption should be that the empire will act how it acts when one isn't in southern tribe territory.
That's not really fair do you normally think I'm arguing in bad faith?
Considering Zeqing explicitly mentioned she'd have once upon a time violently forced Zhengui outside of her claimed region I suspect Not!Else's response to threats is liberal application of murder.
So you're saying that so long as we dont threaten them directly
You're the one who accused me of talking out of both sides of my mouth first when Im notoriously an asshole about people acting under good faith
No, I'm saying that they'll assume that since they're In Territory Where The Empire Actually Operates, they'll assume that if they run into the empire, the empire will go after them. This is because it's what the empire will do, and cultivators live long lives so it just takes ONE person who has done stuff up north to personally know somebody who had that exact situation happen to them.
We may not be in a condition to use it after the battle if our previous track record has any say.
She just makes a goddamn ice palace with the rock in the center we get good fortification and a fallback point for our cavalry
If That Exact Situation had happened to.them, wouldnt they have died instead?
Most of them in that exact situation probably did die, yes, but it only takes one or two, and those who manage to survive are disproportionately likely to live longer lives via superior cultivation. Basically, do you think that the Southern Tribes are COMPLETELY ignorant about the empire, or that they are not completely ignorant about the empire. Because if they aren't completely ignorant about the empire, then like the first thing they will know is that if they ARE north in the territory that the empire operates in, then are not going to be treated any different than the northern tribes are when they DO run into the empire.
I see. Have a good evening.
You're betting on a paranoia they havent displayed in the slightest
No, but I can prove how they act
