[Sitting in this study and being grilled on his bold approach is the worst end to this already stupid as hell evening, thanks, but what Constantin says without looking up, flatly, is:]

If I were in charge I would have him hanged for being a liar and a criminal.

[Maybe drawn and quartered... cutting off thieves' hands is an old classic. Point being: he wouldn't waste time with petty politics if he were in the Priestess' position, and given how she's responded to Otherworlders messing around where they shouldn't, he wonders if their fool plan hasn't actually saved Archimedes' neck.

Like, not that he's earned it. The moron. But it is what it is.

With a truly laborious sigh he looks up, fingers dragging down his face, Peak(tm) drama. Ugh, this sucks, what did he DO that for!!]

He would have run this entire territory into the ground and taken all of those people with him if he wasn't dragged into the thick of it. You know it's true.

[So, ultimately, this is for them? Kind of? Archimedes can go screw, but his people- and that includes the nobles- don't deserve it.]