[Claude assumed she was asleep, so he was preoccupied with his gaze staying fixed on their surroundings, on the others if and when they passed by, on the subtle -- or not-so-subtle -- shifts in the communion around them. He looks over and blinks, distracted, when she speaks again.]
Failnaught? No. I left that behind when I left Fódlan.
[Relics, Crests -- those ideas were better off left in Fódlan, not introduced to Almyra where they had just as much potential to be abused, or to be held against him as proof he was a foreign king wielding an unnatural power to seize the throne for himself. He wanted to rule on his own merits, and leave those harmful traditions behind.]
Why do you ask? I'm sure a Relic is the last thing you want to see.
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Failnaught? No. I left that behind when I left Fódlan.
[Relics, Crests -- those ideas were better off left in Fódlan, not introduced to Almyra where they had just as much potential to be abused, or to be held against him as proof he was a foreign king wielding an unnatural power to seize the throne for himself. He wanted to rule on his own merits, and leave those harmful traditions behind.]
Why do you ask? I'm sure a Relic is the last thing you want to see.