"Petty and performative. Yes. There's a possible whole person who acts like the Mayor of Senara acts, out of a kind of pride and grandeur in being the worst person possible, more Neutral Evil than Lawful Evil, but whole. There's a version of him who makes a threat like that because he takes an artistic pride in destroying somebody as absolutely as possible. He's neither of those people, though, just - a kind of grabbing at any thought of Evil that passes in his mind, the moment it passes his mind, even if the thoughts don't fit together."
"I won't say that the state of the nobility isn't my fault, or even that it wasn't my choice, but it was my choice out of a serve-yourself shit buffet. With the political triumph of Nidal's conquest, the threat from Osirion, our internal explosion of spellsilver, I have the political momentum now to do some things I couldn't before, like issuing them with Intelligence headbands, and forcing them to actually wear the cursed things, if they can't otherwise keep up with changing times. Wisdom would be better yet, but I dare not."