Maybe he ' s just a passenger <| sep |> They were super cheese . <| sep |> I think that ' s because the AI in AW 2 never attacks pipe seams , if I ' m not mistaken . <| sep |> Problem is twofold . Firstly , the archons , nerat included , are already lesser than kyros . They ' re all subservient to her and so any rebellion they started would be doomed from the beginning . Everyone already knows that she can beat any archon just by dropping an edict on their head , so it ' s not a real threat . It ' s sort of like comic books right or any kind of movie really . When you already know the hero is going to win , you don ' t think of them as being more powerful for having won . If superman beats up a street mugger , everyone knows you won ' t be impressed , and even if superman beats up a really big tough regular baddie , you ' re not like woah because he ' s fucking superman , obviously he was going to win . But if something ' other ' comes along . Something that could actually potentially win , whether that ' s someone else from superman ' s home planet , or some colossal galactic monstrosity or whatever , I don ' t know comic books , then you are a bit more impressed . Which is why comic books are notorious for descending into absurdity , with more and more powerful feats consantly accomplished by the heros in an effort to keep people impressed . It ' s a flawed system and can ' t go on forever , but Kyros IS flawed . You ' re the thing that could feasibly beat her though . You ' ve been set up as ' other to ' and ' above ' the rest of the archons . You ' ve been shown to be able to handle edicts dropped on your head in the first act of the game and do all this amazing shit it sets you up to appear as an equal whether or not you actually are . Secondly , even if people would be impressed by an archon rebelling , only to be stamped on by an edict , you can only do that for so long before people get wise to it . Suppose every 10 years , she sets up an archon to rebel so she can stamp it out , after a few rounds , people would start to think man , these archons are more trouble than they ' re worth . Why doesn ' t she just premptively get rid of them all since they keep rebelling ? . They ' re all kind of lumped together as a big group and people would soon get sick of it . Even after everyone who was alive for Nerat ' s rebellion was dead , their kids and so on would be aware of the concept of archons rebelling every so often and getting stamped out . If you create something totally other and seperate in people ' s minds from ' regular archons ', then it ' s a bit different I guess . She can raise you to power as something uniquely equal to her , and above other archons , then stamp you out and restore faith in her , but in 100 years , no one is going to remember exactly how powerful you were or weren ' t . They ' ll just remember that there was this super powerful fatebinder who seemed to be as tough as kyros , then got stamped on anyway . Then 100 years later , there ' s a super powerful whatever , who seems to be as powerful as kyros , and they ' ll get stamped out too , but you can ' t really compare that ' whatever ' to you , because you ' re not in the same ' group ' i . e , you ' re not both just regular archons and not really comparable . Again , kind of similar to comic books . First they ' ll give the superhero some villain from their own planet , oh my , they ' re just as powerful as superheroman ! oh but superheroman wins . But next week , there ' s a sentient AI rising up , and oh my , they seem to be just as powerful as superheroman ! , oh , look superheroman won after all . And next week , there ' s a mad scientist who ' s created soldiers who are as strong as superheroman ! oh but superheroman wins again , and next week , there ' s a swarm of sentient fungus spores that can infect and kill everyone , including superheroman ! but superheroman wins . It gets old less quickly than superheroman stamping on a new sentient AI every week , or stamping on a new alien from their home planet every week . So this time it ' s some fatebinder who can end edicts and control spires . Next week it might be a rebellion made of 20 archons . The week after , it might be an ordinary person who ' s been made super strong through some new technology or some alchemical experiement . The week after , it ' ll be a giant sea monster who ' s been sleeping beneath the waves for 10 , 000 years . Can you really compare the power of you , the fatebinder , to godzilla ? Sure , godzilla is big and scary and can stamp on buildings , which you can ' t do , but godzilla never ended an edict , which you COULD do . Throw a large enough gap for people to be dead forgottern in between them , and there ' s no real way for people to quantify people ' s power and be able to tell whether kyros is in any real threat . People will just be like yeah , this sea monster seems pretty scary , there ' s no way that fatebinder could be as scary as this sea monster because the sea monster might actually beat kyros , whereas the fatebinder lost just make sure you never use the same sea monster twice .