Now please no one get me wrong on this, I believe that Queen Lilliam was really, truly horrible, but I think that there were probably many things that impacted her bad decisions like NIghtwing. First, we know that she was from the poorest of the seven clans which probably drove her to do something to where she would have power to make herself rich. Also, she had nine other royal sisters. I can't remember even after reading the book twice, but I am pretty sure she was one of the youngest ones. This could have been sort of like a Prince Hans situation like in Frozen. Now please no one misunderstand me. I am not saying that anything that Queen Lilliam did was right, but I think that looking into her motives causes the things she did to make more sense.
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Lilliam Tried to KILL CHILDREN CHILDREN!! you can't justify that in any way. She was cruel and even her own daughter hates her. Lilliam does not have a right to be queen and I think she deserves banish meant.
Lilliam is greedy. She puts money above many things and often doesn’t think things throughly when there is money in the deal (for example, she automatically accepted Darthan’s deal). But that doesn’t mean she is dumb. In fact she is smart. She is a good ruler, but she has a bad personality.
And remember that we are looking at Lilliam through Rahikki’s eyes. Rayenna was Rahikki’s mother who was “killed“ by Lilliam so of course Rahikki is going to have some hate for Lilliam. So our opinion of Lilliam is affected by his hate.
And about the free medicine, while Rayenna was queen who do you think was paying for and buying all that medicine? The people. Rayenna probably taxed the people then used that money to give them medicine. So don‘t say Rayenna is all good and wonderful until you analyze her actions more.
The book never mentions how much Lilliam was charging for the medicine, and I think that her share of the money mostly went into feeding and clothing Mahrsan, I'Lenna, and her other daughters. I'm pretty sure that even if Lilliam wasn't getting a share the Sky Guard would still be in need of money. It can't be cheapest thing to house, feed, and supply a couple hundred riders and their mounts. Also, I'm betting a lot of the money went into fixing up, and improving Fort Prowl. I can imagine a fortress as old as Fort Prowl isn't the cheapest to maintain, I doubt if that if it had not been well maintained it would not have been able to withstand any attack.
But we know that she didn't really give money to the sky guard because they NEEDED the money from Echofrost and Shysong's sales to get more supplies. If Queen Lilliam were getting all of that money from the medicine, you would think that she would use it to keep the Sky Guard fell fed and armored. This shows that she really is greedy. We know that she was charging quite a bit for the medicine, and she obviously put none or very little into her Sky Guard.
Except Reyella. Reyella wasnt a bad queen. She was good. I highly doubt she just took money from her people.
I doubt it, I bet all the Sandwen queens do it
A law that Lilliam made.
I don't think Lilliam or Reyella stole money from anyone, I think that there was probably some Sandwen law that gave the queen a share in what ever money was collected from her clan
Reyella did it in a good way. Idk how she got the money, but I highly doubt she didnt just take it for herself. But for the losing control part, I agree with
Guys, it makes sense Lilliam would take a share of the revenue for her self. How else would she be able to afford clothes and Kihlari? Basically she would just be getting paid for being queen, and I'm almost sure Reyella was doing the same thing.
Also most of the things Lillaim did as queen were pretty bad, and most of that can be attributed to her not having had the proper training to lead a clan. So how I see it is she is slowly loosing control of her clan, I doubt she is intentionally trying to destroy the 5th Clan.
Another thing is, I'm a almost 100% sure that Rayella was doing the same things as Lilliam, you all you would not call Rayella evil, stupid, dumb, dull, cruel, idiot, selfish, or greedy.