#'seems you're not the only one copying your daddy huh h.ighlord'

[acherys]

how do you see the dynamics between zoen and mograine shifting, with her becoming lich queen? do you think it would change a lot from what it currently is? would it be as big a change as it was when she became deathlord and he died and she brought him back, or would it be minor and not very different?

     I don’t think their dynamic would change especially much. It already went through its most major upheavals when she became the Deathlord, and later when she resurrected him ( which itself was less a new change and more of a cementing of change. Zoen still considered Mograine in charge “for real” before resurrecting him. She no longer did, afterwards. ). Zoen becoming the Lich Queen would just be her being in charge, but more now.

     Their relationship would be rattled, though. It’d have to be. Mograine promised that his loyalty would ever be hers; that the Horsemen’s loyalty would ever be hers, and he would lead them wherever she took them. But Zoen has led them absolutely back into the Scourge. More, she’s taken the Throne that literally everyone was worried she had aims for. As far as it looks, his suspicions of her were correct. Zoen is her father’s daughter. She went down that dark path, committed so many horrible acts by order of the Lich King, and claimed the crown at the end of that bloody campaign. And she dragged him and the Ebon Blade down with her.

     But he knows her very well by this point, and he would see her in the aftermath of taking the Throne. He would know Zoen didn’t really want this, and that she’s just as scared haunted by how she’s followed her father’s footsteps. Mograine would have the opportunity to see that she’s still, for better or worse, Zoen Mith. 

     A newly-crowned Zoen would fear nothing more than to be alone. She’s absolutely terrified that her old allies and friends and family will distance themselves or even cast her away as the Enemy now that she’s taken the Throne, because she’s aware enough to know that she needs them to keep from becoming her worst self. Without others to ground her, she’ll rapidly forget why giving in to the temptation of the Throne and gearing the Scourge up for another shot at killing the world is bad. And Mograine, who has known her longer than almost anyone else in the world, would likely know this as well.

     What he does with that knowledge is up to him.