After considering it for several days, William agreed to the hints from Thay... though he chose to respond indirectly as well.
It all depended on whether Szass Tam could figure it out himself.
In any case, whether openly or in secret, the righteous and brave Undead would absolutely never cooperate with an evil undead Lich.
As for the occasional "coincidences" caused by perfect timing, well, Heaven knew, the earth knew... but outsiders did not.
William made no unnecessary moves. He merely allowed the Doomsday Family patriarch, who had gone through immense hardship to return to Imbutu, to furiously declare war: because of this sudden attack, they would fight the Undead of the Border Kingdoms to the death from then on. No one could stop their revenge.
Meanwhile, across the strait, Asking Sword, Young Wanderer Under Heaven, who had promptly cut off the hand reaching out from that Mage fortress to aid Amn's warlocks, had no intention of fighting for Doomsday. Still, they positioned their gigantic warships along the Border Kingdoms' coast.
Not helping Doomsday deal with those on land did not mean they could not cast Faction Detection on everyone who went to sea, shout things like "For justice!" and "For the dawn!", and kill Red Names.
Tyr and Lathander would not care about them borrowing their names anyway.
If the pirate kings and bandit leaders of the Border Kingdoms had merely felt frustrated when they were trapped in that narrow channel before, now... they felt they had nowhere left to run.
After all, the two nations on either side, Lapalia and Shia, had made it clear that they would only hang them. This was a matter of national and familial hatred, unlike anywhere else.
After all, the more prestigious the merchant caravans of those two nations were, the more