:This sounds like a genuinely awful mess.  I don't know whether I should react by thinking that I shouldn't walk away from it, because it's the biggest problem and the most in need of my help.  Or if I should react by asking for transportation to - to a faction without big ongoing conflicts, that's widely acknowledged as a good exemplar of virtue, that has best-in-class thinkers and builders to take advantage of the knowledge I carry.  It might depend on whether this war is the kind of problem that has a solution or if it just has to be - outgrown, by your whole world.  And if this war has a neat solution, it wasn't obvious to me inside the first few minutes of hearing you describe it.  I'm sorry.:

:This sounds like a genuinely awful mess.  I don't know whether I should react by thinking that I shouldn't walk away from it, because it's the biggest problem and the most in need of my help.  Or if I should react by asking for transportation to - to a faction without big ongoing conflicts, that's widely acknowledged as a good exemplar of virtue, that has best-in-class thinkers and builders to take advantage of the knowledge I carry.  It might depend on whether this war is the kind of problem that has a solution or if it just has to be - outgrown, by your whole world.  And if this war has a neat solution, it wasn't obvious to me inside the first few minutes of hearing you describe it.  For which I am sorry.: