Quote Originally Posted by The_Weirdo View Post
The. Author. Says. The. Crossbow. Is. Real.
How about you read the whole post. I stipulate real crossbow.
As for the political alliances, it doesn't matter.
Actually, it does if you are going to treat this comic book event as equivalent to real life. Rich goes to some pains to paint the dwarven culture as being different from human culture ... so the context of why those two clans paired up those two dwarves, even though one was not at all keen on the union, matters.

It's not been on screen, so we can only guess. Your assertion that you have some insight on the "truth" of the matter is still unproven, and unsupported. But that does not stop you from asserting as true that which we can only guess at.