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Originally Posted by grey_moon
@SK - But to take it a little further, could she be a great merchant aka Billy Gates style? For example she now realises that Horo is real. From lore she knows that Horo can affect harvests badly, so if she pisses Horo off in the hope that Horo makes sure that there is no harvest for the following year. She would before hand stockpile all the grain and then in time of need make a killing off everyone oO
Now that would be evil but great mechanting
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I think you're following a pretty nice track, here, especially considering that the contemporary view towards the economic system thought of it generally as a "zero-sum" game. By profiting off the "enraged" Horo, Chloe might ultimately benefit from Horo's projected "neglect" of the harvest. Not only that, but since she already has her scheme going on, she's already in a pretty solid position economically. Now that I think of it, Chloe has been playing her cards
very well, and if you're right at those ulterior motives, then Chloe pretty much has set herself up in a win-win situation regardless of what happens.
Of course, the only problem here is if they somehow reported the existence of Horo prior to her delivery. The failure to actually deliver her to the Vatican would have probably given her faction some Papal disfavor, which was a really detrimental thing at the time. It might not affect her company directly, but there will definitely be fallout with the Count if the Church was aware that they had Horo in their grasps but lost her again.
