A Question

[yao590.livejournal.com]

Here is another question I have in KoA. It's after the assassination, in the king's room:

"If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, and Eddisian soldiers on the move."

l read the sentence  again and again, but I can't understand why if Gen deny the pain, then the palace would panic? I think that if the king was calm, the palace wouldn't panic.

And then "He'd mean to deceive them, and he'd succeeded."  Deceive them what? I totally can't understand these, so I am all confused about following things as well. May someone explain it for me? But just those two sentences. I'd like to try to figure out the following by myself. Thanks!! 

Comments

[parron.livejournal.com]

I think - I'm probably not the person to explain it, but my impression was always that a) the Attolians were somewhat afraid that the Eddisians would jump on an attack to declare war, like if - oh - the king was assassinated. So if people had known Gen was seriously wounded, they would have been afraid that Eddis as a result would attack.

Which leads to the second part - if Gen had said, "Oh, no, I'm fine" and put on a brave face... no one would have believed it. This is the "cowardly king," and this is a guy who never, ever fails to let people know when he's discomforted. And since he was whining about it, everyone was more, "dude, stfu," no one took him seriously. So in that way, the king was able to trick everyone else - the more he whined about how "gravely injured" he was, the less people would believe him.

I hope that's not too much, or that this isn't total BS, that's just the way I always figured it went.