Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Pulling it off the wrong way could have turned it into just another jealous kid throwing a tantrum...
I did give me that kind of an impression. The dude has the strongest ambition to be a king among kings but that's where his ambition starts and ends. He has no actual idea what it is to be a king or how one becomes a king. He's truly trapped in his destiny. I'd say he would never have become a king even if the series had continued. He might have become some sort of a leader with luck and his son might have become a king but not Istovan himself.

I guess Guin did tell him as much, in his own way. Too bad Istovan wasn't in any state to listen to anything but his own whining. The man truly fell towards the end of the series.