Factional Struggle

Jaina led her army to the border. Port of Boralus voluntarily opened its gates and surrendered, and all of Kul Tiras fell.

All right, "fell" was not quite the right word. More accurately, it was a transfer of power within the Proudmoore family.

Without that damned fat hag Prycia stirring things up in the middle, Jaina and Katherine's conversation went fairly smoothly. There were no emotional breakdowns or fierce arguments, which was only natural. After all, they were mother and daughter; what could they not talk through?

With the Alliance's official guarantee added to the mix, Admiral Katherine, this middle-aged woman, finally opened her eyes and seriously examined her situation. She admitted that Prycia, her dear best friend, had sidelined and manipulated her.

Well, the Alliance's guarantee was not even necessary. Given the current state of Port of Boralus, the truth was already painfully obvious.

A huge number of important officials at every level had fled alongside Prycia, leaving an enormous power vacuum at the top of Kul Tiras's hierarchy. If Katherine still could not see that, then she had truly lived all these years for nothing.

You thought they were all your people, but in truth, they all belonged to someone else. Without Prycia's approval, none of your decrees could even leave Port of Boralus.

It proved an age-old truth: once a political situation had solidified to a certain point, the only ways to break it apart and rebuild were war and violence. Peaceful evolution and transfers of power were nothing but wishful thinking.

Although Admiral Katherine was the ruler of Kul Tiras, her actual sphere of control extended only to Port of Boralus and Tiragarde Sound. Even in those two places, the Ashvane family's infiltration and interference had rendered Katherine little more than blind and deaf.

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