Talk:Book 8: Legacy/@comment-50.53.58.29-20190520033216/@comment-50.47.104.74-20190520060142

I totally agree that we need more clear motives on all sides, but this is what I came up with.

So we got the 2 sides, contain humans vs. let them be free.

The Neverseen wants to put humans in a Sanctuary but also hate them and want to experiment on them to find out why they became the "winners" and clearly don't care if they get hurt in the process. They want to research how elves can overcome human ruthlessness (that's why Fintan brought Keefe to the Forbidden Cities, he was trying to analyze the differences between elven brains and human brains) so they can take over.

The Black Swan is against a Sanctuary for humans and created Sophie so they'd have someone who is automatically sympathetic to their cause and would have a unique perspective on the issue. Honestly, that seems kinda messed up, to create someone for the purpose of having them on your side. Idk, the fact that they gave Sophie's human mom a Sophie embryo without her knowledge makes it seem like even the Black Swan doesn't respect humans. But whatevs.

Lady Gisela seems to be walking some sort of line between the sides. Clearly she believes that elves are superior to humans, otherwise she wouldn't be working with the Neverseen at all as that's their core issue, but she seems to have a more refined plan where she intends herself and Keefe to end up on top. So basically, "hoomans r bad but lez not just go around burning them"