[Shutting down Ydris is often a good move, they need people willing to take them to task. Letting a young god think they're beyond reproach does not a wise mind make... and Ydris does very much wish to be wise.

They just... aren't yet. So, brushing passed the sting their immaturity feels over such a correction, they just make a bit of a face over it. More thought required! What more is there...]

You're right. It doesn't make sense to... what is the saying-? Cut off your nose to spite your face? [something like that, that old goat that Ydris begrudgely respected would say things like that all the time. Some even stuck with Ydris, heaven forbid]

Making the Alliance vulnerable is only harmful to it, yes? There's not some hidden advantage to such a thing deliberately-?