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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO SPOILERS] Aorsi/Dagliash
« on: August 08, 2016, 08:22:17 pm »Probably the Consult hoped Kellhus and company would be beset at Dagliash long enough for the Tekne-Nuke to explode beneath ground and take them unawares, especially as a greater portion of the Ordeal would have been much closer to blast-radius (as the Ordeal's plan fixated on converging on Dagliash).
I'm not entirely convinced that the Consult even intended to destroy the Ordeal with the nuke (in fact if some of the theories on No-God resurrection being thrown around are somewhat true, destroying the Ordeal at Dagliash might have been the last thing the Consult wanted). I think the main purpose of the nuke was to destroy the Horde (and thus the Ordeal food supply), since the Consult knew it had finally been gathered all around Dagliash.
Why the indirectness? I think the Consult idea is to have a half-starved and reduced Ordeal show up at Golgotterath and be easily defeated and wrangled into No-God 2.0, since the hints seem to point to the need for plenty of human fodder for that purpose.