Clenn is having a lot of fun with this XD.
Did anyone notice that the queen's name is "Toara" and the name of interest that has cropped up is "Toa"? Not saying the queen has anything directly to do with it, but if the name is something that seeped in the culture of these nations it isn't farfetched that her name is inspired by the original but has lost its true meaning.
It is a slightly subtle but very smart way of worldbuilding, one that could have even gone unnoticed with all the shit that has happened in these past chapters.
Dorrel had the death he deserved... a pathetic one, like a fart taken by the wind, I am actually very satisfied with that, I don't think he deserved anything dignified.
Since his introduction, the fucker has been anything if not annoying, he destroyed people's livelihoods, killed his old friend and apprentice, and during all that shit he has been screaming about how people didn't try enough to be free... as he practically enslaved them... there is being a holier-than-thou asshole... and there is being this loser.
I am impressed by the author achieving that, making a satisfying villain to hate is hard enough... but making one that you find pathetic, then giving him an equally pathetic death and making it satisfying is even harder.