Mm... a kind of risk-versus-necessity in its own right. Someone would have to believe strongly enough in it being a just act to make the loss of power worthwhile.

[She glances down at her hand again, the other resting thoughtfully against it. For her, freeing her people would have been a worthy cause, and if it meant losing that power in the aftermath, she'd still have fought the other lords. But she doesn't know what kind of king Somnus is, or was. Cold, certainly, and for all his eloquence he could be thoughtless in how he spoke to people. But he lacked the kind of cruelty she'd witnessed and heard about of the other lords.

There is a certain degree of coldness to casually discussing what it would take for one of his own to murder him, even distantly, so she amends,]

Both situations make for a very ugly reality, despite the power being so beautiful.