[At least you're finding out this sort of thing now rather than making the mistake and your subjects paying for it?]
Oh, no doubt! I tried to advise her to expand her horizons but I'm afraid she might not have taken it to heart.
[Casual shrug on his end.]
[Also, Zelda, Alastor warned you about making deals with your soul. That offering to trade it was begging for trouble. Entirely different, sweetheart.]
When possible, yes. Many a war ended before it ever began when the would-be fighting sides came to an amiable agreement between themselves. Now if that treaty is written up after such a conflict, I honestly don't know what the best practice would be. After all, to the victor go the spoils. Working out an amiable agreement could be gifting mercy to the vanquished but it's on a case-by-case basis of whether it should be offered in the first place. While my country didn't ratify it and instead chose to write a separate treaty following The Great War, the Treaty of Versailles has always been debated on whether or not it was too harsh or too lenient on Germany for what they did during the war.
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Oh, no doubt! I tried to advise her to expand her horizons but I'm afraid she might not have taken it to heart.
[Casual shrug on his end.]
[Also, Zelda, Alastor warned you about making deals with your soul. That offering to trade it was begging for trouble. Entirely different, sweetheart.]
When possible, yes. Many a war ended before it ever began when the would-be fighting sides came to an amiable agreement between themselves. Now if that treaty is written up after such a conflict, I honestly don't know what the best practice would be. After all, to the victor go the spoils. Working out an amiable agreement could be gifting mercy to the vanquished but it's on a case-by-case basis of whether it should be offered in the first place. While my country didn't ratify it and instead chose to write a separate treaty following The Great War, the Treaty of Versailles has always been debated on whether or not it was too harsh or too lenient on Germany for what they did during the war.