Of course he doesn’t miss her.

Exactly

It’s not my fault the source game decided to make it explicit that Vette, a formerly incarcerated thief and pirate, is saving it for marriage.

Ahh, I like that idea, but chivalric romance developed after primogeniture made marriage unlikely for most upper class men! This early Christian affordance for partnerships other than wedlock did not last

They are literally about to kidnap her. For her own good, of course.

It’s a little heretical, but if he’s the bishop, who’s going to argue? If Eru didn’t want him to make these decisions, Eru simply wouldn’t have put him in charge. Checkmate pagans!

Yep. You get it

Mal didn’t call her anything! Frat!Mal would never. That’s Alex being gross 🙂‍↕️

That's a nice review. I thought about going for it the last time I saw it on an in-flight menu but wound up watching "The Rules of the Game" instead and it doesn't seem like I can fault my own choice

Btw maybe she's a former Vestal who aged out at 37-ish and she was engaged to Celeborn the whole time but she dumped him and paganism for Halbrand and now she's a cause célèbre

…give her mansion on the Caelian hill to the church along with all her belongings. Halbrand moves in and begins a relationship with her for the ostensible purpose of swelling the ranks of the faithful. They can't marry or she loses the privileges of rank that allow her to dispose of her own land 2/

Okay, the Haladriel version of it for me is Galadriel breaking her engagement with her fiancé Celeborn. He and the other senators are livid that she's fallen under the sway of the Christian cult. The mysterious new bishop of Rome, Halbrand, tells her that Eru Ilúvatar requires her to… 1/

Is it good… I need grist for the mill

Yes exactly ! He was just trying to keep it proportionate, I imagine