The fact that Gortash went to his parent’s house as an Archduke, probably accompanied by a bunch of guards and having the power of a chosen to top it all off, and still needed the tadpoles to “make them powerless.” That’s a very real depiction of how childhood trauma affects us as adults.
I mean, I still get scared of seeing my abusive stepmother out on the street even knowing she can’t hurt me anymore.
What could two old cobblers possibly do to a man like him even without the mind control? Wow, Larian. Damn.