That doesn't sound very fun at all. Definitely sounds like a system closer to the one here than one he'd be more used to. “I can see how that might complicate motivations more.” An understatement, really.

“The Duchess, or Zlatka as she also calls herself — hence Zlatniki — is not in fact from here. Not sure where, but she has been here who knows how long and happens to be a person who has a lot of magical-type power in particular, even when she's not asking Void-Touched to gather pieces of it back for her on suicide missions. Which, by the way, never go in the caves here.” She probably doesn't want to know exactly how those two seemingly separate thoughts connect to one another. “So, I'm guessing she's in the 'steal it from others' category, and I don't have any basis for that guess other than my feelings on most leaders in general.” Says Rubilykskoye's favorite (??? [probably not favorite]) favorite pain the ass iconoclast who is not enjoying playing as nice as he about it, negative stars out of ten.