Still love how the Witch King is basically well-written Emperor of Mankind — which is to say that he's an once-in-ten-thousand years genius so brilliant as to actually literally build a kingdom in hell to save the world from existential threats…
And then he gets Fucking Assassinated because of his erratic behavior, at which point everything he built literally falls apart because he was too myopic to recruit any actual partners.
Meanwhile Theresa who underneath the Jesus-coding occupies a very similar niche of Great Man Genius does actually see her goals be meaningfully carried on after her assassination because of her trust in people like Kal'stit and Closure.
So in this essay I will argue that Theresa is well-written Erda —












