One moral being that if anyone had a headband of Mental Perfection that granted +6 to all mental attributes importantly including Cunning, plopping it on Esta's head would almost immediately resolve all of his current conflicts -- in favor of his parts that are more like preference and desire, and less like thinking-in-words-patterns, if you were wondering.

The higher Cunning would boost general transformation of desired-outcomes into desirable-waypoints, more strongly and more coherently than it boosted the impulses from memorized-verbal-patterns.

One moral being that if anyone had a headband of Mental Perfection that granted +6 to all mental attributes importantly including Cunning, plopping it on Esta's head would almost immediately resolve all of his current conflicts -- in favor of his parts that are more like preference and desire, and less like thinking-in-words-patterns, if you were wondering.

The higher Cunning would boost general transformation of desired-outcomes into desirable-waypoints, more strongly and more coherently than it boosted the impulses from memorized-verbal-patterns.

And also, that Esta would just be generally smart enough to figure out everything that was going on inside himself, and see all that the Church of Asmodeus had done to him, and why they'd done it, and evaluate (despite all memorized words and flinches of intermediate generality) its meaning according to all the parts of himself at once.

If anyone had a headband of Mental Perfection that granted +6 to all mental attributes importantly including Cunning, plopping it on Esta's head would almost immediately resolve all of his current conflicts -- in favor of his parts that are more like preference and desire, and less like thinking-in-words-patterns, if you were wondering.

The higher Cunning would boost general transformation of desired-outcomes into desirable-waypoints, more strongly and more coherently than it boosted the impulses from memorized-verbal-patterns.

And also, that Esta would just be generally smart enough to figure out everything that was going on inside himself, and see all that the Church of Asmodeus had done to him, and why they'd done it, and evaluate (despite all memorized words and flinches of intermediate generality) its meaning according to all the parts of himself at once.