With his loss, the Second Princess Faction, who even at their strongest was still weak, had received a further attack.
High Minister Darius severely weakened the nobles of the second princess Ariel's faction.
Influential nobles, in succession, had lost power, or betrayed the princess, causing the immediate collapse of the second princess faction.
By losing a person of influential backing, the reality for Ariel, was that the road to the crown was also becoming lost to her.