Doing some reading back on Mindfang’s sections of the comic for the wiki - the ancestors now all have their own pages - and it’s fascinating to find out that the independence of land dwellers from sea dwellers was even more explicit than i remembered. I always point out to how counterintuitive it might be for the Grand Highblood to have the authority to execute Dualscar despite caste seniority, but Mindfang makes it sound exactly like a “you tell my boss and I’ll tell yours” situation when she discusses reporting Dualscar’s own crimes directly to the empress.