Risking the King: Difference between revisions

* The protagonist of Descendant of a Demon Lord stumbled herself into being in charge of an army, and then found herself meeting rulers that decide to pledge their supported for Celes to become the Demon King/Queen (and they also told Celes that she should become Demon Queen). Celes eventually gives in and tries to win the 20 year War of Succession. At one point she did something particularly risky (literally going, alone, into a magic hole with basically no knowledge of what was one on the other side) and one of her commander's, Vrudanos, complained to Celes about it. Yes, Celes was probably the one most likely to pull off what needed to be done and then get out. [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|But if Celes died then it was likely her alliance would fall apart and everyone that died for her would have died in vain.]] Plus when Celes did this her army was in territory that Celes took from Pride (one of her rivals). Pride still had most of her military and infrastructure in tact, so if Celes died her personal army might be abandoned by Celes's allies in what was virtually enemy territory<ref>Although considering the secret deals Edri had with the late King Wrath, the prospect of being merely abandoned might be optimistic, not that Vrudanos knew of that agreement.</ref>. Furthermore, Celes is [[Ax Crazy|Lady Slaughter's]] [[Morality Chain]]. Celes losing a handful of subordinates would be unfortunate, but Celes dying would be an absolute disaster.