[quote=@shylarah]
[@Prince of Seraphs]  Hm.  Well, firstly, I figured the easiest way to overthrow Feoras as a ruler is by killing him.  I'm sure there's other methods, but that's the most straightforward.
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A ruler of a court is kept in power only as long as they show the people they are capable of keeping the Court strong. Or if they have a method of enslaving the Court as Ceridwen did. If they show the people weakness to the point where the Court may suffer for it the fae wouldn't hesitate to have them diposed. Not exactly simple and would require masterful manipulation of a number of parties but it could be done.

[quote=@shylarah]
[@BlackPanther] The impression I got was that excluding Spring was part of the intention. I'm not clear how allying with Fall, knowing that will eventually include Winter, will be of greater benefit than the cost for alienating Spring, and possibly allowing it to be overthrown, but that's just me.  And yup, it seems Feoras is impulsive, because he thought it through [i]after[/i] he said it.  =P  What I meant by guarantee was that a friendship here is assumed to be a close alliance that would not be betrayed, not that he can guarantee Falk will accept.
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I'm thinking that an alliance with Fall is nearly as harmful as hostilities against them as it give Falk an in to trick the ruler into making use of your Court's resources as he wants.

[quote=@shylarah]
[@Prince of Seraphs] Are we sure?  If he was so in love with Arys, then...hm.  Well, that's a point about fey, but him being closer to human it seems odd that he's the one that slept around -- and that she was the one so upset by it.
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Humans can get sexually bored and seek out new partners in a handful of years or even months. How would a species that lives forever cope better then that? My view has always been that fae have one major partner, the one that they share their possessions and power with and sire heirs with but their is a general understanding that this is not the only fae either of them would be sleeping with as long as some grounds rules were established. Of course some fae especially the younger wouldn't see it like that yet. Hence Arys' anger.

Of course that's only one possibility. Who really knows what happened between them.