Are they not? [She raises an eyebrow. Did he not get it?]

Consider this: The mermaid's queen saw the mermen as something to be reviled and captured their king. Said king then used dark magic to summon monsters and and rip a tear in reality. He did it to save his people, true, but that sort of justification rarely holds up to most who are then attacked or stolen from.

[Does she need to spell it out for you, Roy? For if one looked at it from the perspective of one side, what does it make the other seem like?]

That we got them to agree to a ceasefire is astounding, though t'was likely not to last our departure even if the void didn't claim it.