It's been the Regent's goal for... well. Long as the Bloodites been alive and their father's fathers have been alive; living with such a threat over their heads makes it seem less and less real, I'm sure.

[ people tend to worry about tangible things: how to put food on the table. how to make their lives comfortable. the prospective end of it all is a bit abstract, a bit much, for the average person to digest Abel imagines. ]

But seeing the Achamites here in Godsblood for the first time in a long time... seeing that the Regent fell short of their objective - it might be the first step in helping us foster some hope among them. Of a world free of that threat.