Quote Originally Posted by tanonx View Post
In unfairness to Serini, that's exactly what letting the lich take over the world would do to everyone else. Plenty of irony in that.
You know, I can't picture Xykon bothering to actually rule the world. In Gobnotopia he pretty much left Redcloak run things. Obviously, if the Snarl were what Xykon was told it was, him having it would be bad, but he wouldn't actually take over the world, he'd blow up a few major population centers, build a big-ass tower to put a throne in and then be bored out of his skull again. Most people would truck on living as they always have while paying lip-service to the mad lich and with the added fear of being victim to his random wrath. Given the world they live in, and despite it being obvious wishful-thinking she came up with to justify her already-decided course of action, rather than the opposite, it's not that unlikely that a team of heroes would eventually arise to cast down the evil tyrant.

She says the world will survive, the gods say the multiverse will survive. At least the latter have the planar afterlife to offer.
Not great news for the dwarves. And frankly most of these afterlives mighty suck.

Also, if the Snarl gets out on the planet, then no afterlife for anybody.

Hell, even her concern that the Order might destroy the final Gate isn't that unreasonable when you remember that Roy once equated Xykon winning and the planet being literally destroyed (first page, bottom row).