Originally Posted by
eschmenk
The author apparently wants us to think that way. We even had Dire warn us recently that he was allowing Ardon to live because Ardon would be such an effective weapon of revenge against everyone else. I'm suspicious. I think it's more likely that things will somehow sort of work out in the end and we'll get yet another explanation from Ardon about how he made things less bad than they otherwise would have been. That's happened several times before, hasn't it?