#OTOH sinking Adrestia first would have been a nice move from Thales

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Ooh !

We know from Azure Moon that the Agarthans won't stay around if their pawn is in danger, they leave hegemon after all.

In Nopes, while Larva/Epimenides helped the Elites, when he was blasted away he was with his Agarthan masked fellows... So from this I had the feeling Agarthans don't really help themselves, when they do they remain in small groups and run away at this first sign of things turning sour.

Given how Adrestia started to push the "might makes right" agenda as early as 100 when the emperor who succeeded Lycaon 1 dueled for the throne against Aegir, either the Agarthans suddenly popped up after Lycaon's death, or worse, were "influencing" Adrestian politics from an earlier point, maybe when Rhea, Wilhelm and Lycaon were still fighting.

From then, Adrestia isn't Seiros's legacy anymore (regardless of Lycaon being her kid ! ) since they want to wage the throne on strength, Seiros herself retreats and they're free to slither around. Nemesis might have died, but the Nabateans don't have any ally/legacy, since Adrestia immediately forgot what the nabateans (+ Willy ?) preached about might not being the alpha and omega.

So while I'd think it's kind of annoying how, again, Agarthans are the reason why everything goes wrong (and not, humans being humans), I'd still find it thematically interesting, because it's the first (but not the last!) time Rhea lets them wreck the present Fodlan because she's too busy/focused on righting past wrongs.

Had a thought, what if the Agarthans engineered the moral decline of the Empire? Thales and his cronies have been around for centuries, jumping from one body to the next, is it not possible that some of their past identities helped change the Empire from valuing knowledge to coveting strength in Rhea's absence following the War of Heroes and later keeping out of the Empire's affairs?