:Sorry, there's - a lot of unfamiliar concepts there - not so much the words, as the states of the world the words are talking about - so much to untangle - I'm trying to analyze this inside my own theoretical framework, trying to figure out which step of the proof that this shouldn't happen, is failing. Why the absence of war isn't a simultaneous improvement for all the agents. So far I've got possibilities that look like 'The absence of war isn't an improvement for an alien superbeing called Vkandis Sunlord', 'Karse thought they could consume all of Valdemar's resources, Valdemar thought Karse couldn't, and there was some prior breakdown of the theorem against common knowledge of disagreements' - though I don't see how it could still be that, presumably they know Vanyel exists now and that they aren't conquering Valdemar that easily? Or do they still think they're about to win? And a third possibility is that this war improves the position of the 'King', so it's good for the King but not for the rest of Karse, and Yfandes knows this but the population of Karse doesn't. Does any of that - sound correct? Or does it all sound equally like a clueless outworlder talking? And are you certain that Karse is murdering envoys and Valdemar isn't doing that?:
Murdering envoys sounds really bad. Like there's no way that could be an honest mistake or even a... she doesn't have words. It's like a vicious assault, but taken up to the level of assaulting the meta-level where peace could happen if there needed to be peace. If she talks to a Karsite and the Karsite plainly confesses that yes, Karse is doing that and Valdemar isn't, that's more than enough for her to side with Valdemar outright, unless there's a really big factor Yfandes isn't telling her about. As could easily be the case, of course.