i'm scouring through the lost fable and the phrase "hearts of men are easily swayed" becomes infinitely funnier when you realize it basically just means "salem gets others to ditch the brother gods."
salem unites three kingdoms with promises of the powers of their creators to perfect their own design and bunch of other stuff to attack the gods? the hearts of men are easily swayed.
salem comes up with an idea to become the new gods of the world and create a paradise the old gods could not, and ozma goes along with it? the hearts of men are easily swayed.
and i'm like. maybe i should have realized this sooner but when just about every single action salem has taken since the day she first met the god of light has been in defiance of the gods + what she says to cinder in the final word—"In pursuit of a new world"—...maybe, just maybe, the lost fable has been shoving what salem's current plan entails in our faces this whole time.
just a tiny bit.
