Yes... I'm afraid it has. [The more Ethlyn thinks on the past few years, the more she asks herself how it happened--how the scions of the land's greatest heroes could have dove so deeply into wicked, selfish behavior.] The great families of Grannvale are descended from forebears who saved our continent from centuries of oppression. Now it seems their descendants want nothing more but to return to it, only with themselves at the top of it.

My father and brother did their best to oppose them, and I helped as much as I could, though I married into another nation's royal family. But it's--well, it's three against one. [She gives Dohalim a rueful look.] It's very long odds.