The Lord Ruler is mostly concerned with watching his borders expand and scaring away the occasional fairy who looks at them wrong. The humans are multiplying much faster than fairies do, and expand fast enough that they aren't likely to be considered good neighbors anyway.
Over the centuries, the numbers of Inquisitors decrease. (Nobody's being killed for Hemalurgy, and there are only so many useful spikes to be passed on when existing ones die or retire.) But since some of the humans are learning sorcery, and much more collaboratively than most fairies, moving to Fairyland comes with a net gain in minion usefulness.
Alendi even finds out that his immortal minion, a man going by Dorian, was the donor for one of Promise's spikes. And that she has used tinminds he filled. And while that charge could theoretically be replaced, it can never be returned.
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Over the centuries, the numbers of Inquisitors decrease. (Nobody's being killed for Hemalurgy, and there are only so many useful spikes to be passed on when existing ones die or retire.) But since some of the humans are learning sorcery, and much more collaboratively than most fairies, moving to Fairyland comes with a net gain in minion usefulness.
Alendi even finds out that his immortal minion, a man going by Dorian, was the donor for one of Promise's spikes. And that she has used tinminds he filled. And while that charge could theoretically be replaced, it can never be returned.