[ Another nod. ] Provided that the monarch knows which connection to sever. [ Which wasn't always the case. As can be easily imagined, if a king or queen had many glaives and one went rogue, they would not know which one cut away from their power. ]

Yet if they slew their king, they, too, would ultimately lose their power, for it was from the king that they were granted it. [ Someone would have had to be really angry for something like this to happen gee

But that's another difference between his family's magic and what Kisara uses. She's willing to fight the Renans, but there is little risk of her losing all her magical augmentations by doing so. ]