Nott: "Are they super powerful now? Are they gunna--?"
Beau: "--Destroy the Empire?"
Fjord: Let's just go back to the third temple and get Ukatoa out while we're at it."
Nott: "We gave a nuke to the bad guys!"
It's crazy to me that the Nein are still so invested in the idea that the Kryn are bad. What have they actually done up to this point?
That the Nein have seen:
Kryn agents slaughtered trying to steal back a precious artifact that may have some sort of pivotal role in their reproduction, maybe, which was initially stolen from them anyway.
Kryn soldiers attacked Felderwin, burned down a bunch of building, kidnapped Yeza, killed some Crowns Guard, didn't seem to have killed many civilians. The worst that they've seen Kryn soldiers do.
Kryn soldiers attacked the Nein and the Empire rangers that they met up with while the groups were on Dynasty land, a country they were actively at war with.
That the Nein have heard about that goes beyond "they're evil and bad because the Empire says so":
The Kryn attacked and took the Ashguard Garrison after declaring war.
The Kryn create large areas of magical darkness.
Children have been going missing from Nogvorot, apparently kidnapped by Kryn agents (0% confirmed or checked out by the Nein).
The worst they've really seen are the goblins and gnolls who attacked them, be those were specifically living in the Empire. The goblins and gnolls they've met in the Dynasty may not have been conventionally civilized, as it were, but they weren't attack on sight, child-murdering, evil monsters.
There might be some others that I've missed, but for the most part everything that the Nein know about the Dynasty has come via expertly done in-game propaganda from Matt, as I discussed in this post. And I say expertly done because we see how the players are so so invested in "Kryn bad" that they compare returning their lost artifact to giving them a nuke or releasing a demigod.
But you know who is an attack on sight, child-murdering, evil monster? Ikithon. Which is why Caleb is the one who understands the most, the Kryn aren't the bad guys they've been told they are.
