The king liked the idea of saving the kingdom by killing the traitor a decade before the main story started. But he had some fairly major doubts about it. The biggest one was that everybody I had pulled came from the main story. Their personalities were all built on the experiences of the last decade, and he didn’t want to risk them becoming unstable if we redid all of that. It had taken me and Red a rather long time to model those characters, so I totally agreed with his reservations. He did not want to sacrifice the lives of those closest to him in order to give his kingdom the best future it could have. But it WAS his kingdom. His responsibility. He would make the sacrifice if he had to. He simply hoped there was another possibility.