I need him

and maybe he wanted to kill Tai in Esshai not just for political reasons but because he thought that if the shadow survives and looks for a new host it would be forced to find one in Esshai and stay there. ofc most likely this is giving Foelh too much credit lol and he was just an asshole with no redeeming reasons still ... idk he occasionally seemed like a shrewd manipulator to me ... but also not completely 100% monstrous. (most cruel to Tai but not necessarily everybody else) so would be interesting... 🤷‍♀️ i wish we found out more about Foelh's reasons The shadow most likely has some sort of goal and wants to get to the throne and was using Tai to get there. so everybody in the way of that goal had to be killed. Imagine if Foelh knew or suspected that. Like he not only suspected that Tai killed his other heirs but he knows... he knows for sure that it was the shadow/Tai. He would hate Tai ofc. so he had disliked Tai since birth for "killing" his wife. And then additional family members died because of Tai 💀 + we don't know much about Foelh's relationship with Tai's mom, there aren't many mentions of what Foelh was like with his first 2 sons or if he was less of a dickhead back in the day. but I think the very fact that he disliked Tai so much implies that he might have loved his first wife who died in childbirth. blaming the baby for that is stupid but it shows a level of humanity/passion because if he didn't give a fuck about anybody (including his wife) then he would have no reason to be angry about her death. So kind of a Tywin and Joanna Lannister type of situation (except is A Song of Ice and Fire we actually get plenty of descriptions of Joanna and the relationship and Tywin's behaviour before she died)