Neither Yino with its prematurely completed corrupted ruins system nor Goldcrest with its rebellion fragmenting the kingdom's loyalties.
Even those who'd researched in the Ashenway detractor faction with Leonel until the end.
And in the end, even Leonel himself had been useful in that room Liora and Luna had found too late.
Because by the time he'd been affected by Ravenspire, he'd managed something unexpected despite having failed at the last moment. His final desperate research produced results he hadn't lived to see exploited.
Orion's allies had penetrated the area where the "future prince" had conducted his final experiments. Allies and opportunists operating in shadows had already collected those results from his research on corruption.
They'd salvaged data about Leonel's attempts to avoid what ended in his complete crystallization. Methods the prince had developed trying to escape from the secondary control of the puppeteer who'd bound him.
