#this is also the reason why she didn't send her grimm army to kill everyone in mantle

[strqyr]

the reason why salem isn't going to be using the staff to create a weapon of mass destruction or something to destroy vacuo, in her own words:

"your faith in mankind was not misplaced. when banded together, unified by a common enemy, they are a noticeable threat. but divide them, place doubt into their minds, and any semblance of power they once had will wash away."

salem's whole plan hinges on humanity being divided. that's the only way the gods, once summoned, will destroy remnant completely. the only way salem believes she can still die – "so long as this world turns, you shall walk its face." – without doing what the gods actually want her to do.

salem knows how to unite humanity. she's done it herself. she's not going to make herself the enemy of mankind by destroying a kingdom for no reason. not when that kingdom already has two kingdoms' worth of people, with bad blood between them already, in it.

the heroes unite and salem divides. that's the point. if salem suddenly starts destroying, she's going to make the heroes job so easy that even if she got the relics and summoned the gods, she wouldn't get what she wanted.

and she's wayyyyy smarter than that.

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