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There’s something to be said for an ability to find talented people to delegate responsibilities to and knowing how to use them. Rowan isn’t carrying their ambition, he and Cliohna and Skordred and Greyhide and Cla-Min are. Each one of them is massively talented at their jobs, to the point that in a less dire situation they could easily be called Mary Sues, and none of them would be working together in such tight coordination without the twins’ intervention; and that’s not even going into the folks whose contributions to the war effort may be less directly felt, but are still implied to be top of their fields like X’zaratl, Draith, and Shaya. Even then, without Jezera’s portals and Andras at the head of the army, there’s no way the resources at Rowan’s disposal would have been enough to conquer Rastedel, or even Raeve Keep. Rowan is more than pulling his own weight in all this, and he’s probably the lynchpin keeping it all together, but the twins clearly have a talent for identifying talent, pulling it together, and putting it where it’ll do the most good, even if without a buffer like Rowan they’d probably end up screwing all of that up afterwards. And remember, they recognize that they needed a buffer, it’s why they recruited Rowan in the first place, and have at least toyed with the idea of attempting to recruit one of the other heroes if Rowan is no longer performing for whatever reason.
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