@Banarok
That's very backwards thinking. If they have nothing to hide they wouldn't be hiding anything? This kingdom is hiding things from its subjects, no doubt. Every governmental body does - every governmental body MUST, it's a requirement to rule that there are things to be hidden and dealt with away from the public eye.
So clearly the royals and the knights are corrupt because of this thinking.
I get what you're saying, but my point is that there's another perspective to take in this situation that doesn't involve turning TWO secret organizations against you when your MAIN job is the protection of your populace. She knows that Shadow Garden is powerful beyond belief, but refuses to admit or acknowledge it because she can't understand something that much more powerful than she is - which is hubris. Blind hubris. She understands Alpha is 'strong', but doesn't realize Alpha is stronger than her even though it's a fact she had proven to her. But hearing of what Shadow's done she chooses to believe the more convenient 'truth' that her sister is addleminded, even knowing she isn't and there's no proof of this artifact going haywire or her sister being muddled in the head.
This is not the kind of person who should be deciding to make enemies, especially enemies who are among her own people. This is the kind of thing that can get her kingdom destroyed and its citizens annihilated and she's making it out of blind fucking pride and stupidity.
She is a
bad Royal. She may not be a corrupt one, but she's a stupid one.