@Kurbo so then whats the point of premonition? If you have a premonition that 100k men are going to die because the front line breaks, then even if you retreat are 100k men going to die? If you reinforce and put 10 times as many men in that spot, will they still break through in that spot? Does that mean that you essentially never have free will as long as you can predict the future? What about when the author said that the old Pryde used to predict the future and profit off of the people's sufferings from drought or famine and that she was called evil for that? Did she take advantage of the future there?
Unless it's straight out said that the future is immutable once it's predicted, the mother is an asshole because the reason why she was evil is because she never got her parents' love and was only satisfied materially while being put in a den of snakes. You have to remember that this stuff is all happening while she's a very young child still trying to figure out herself. Also if the future really is immutable then how come she was able to change the future by reincarnating? Why is everyone around her that knows how the power works (that it's impossible to change the future) act in a way that saves lives and actually does change the future? Why was her father so happy for saving his life when he should've been destined to die on that date anyway no matter what Pryde did?
That's because this whole series is either logically flawed and really stupid and poorly written with zero (0) redeeming qualities or the future is changeable from premonitions. And if the future is changeable from premonitions, the mother is the worst mother on the planet for not even trying to help her out or trying to set up reliable systems for after she dies. Maybe she will always be a terrible queen, but can't she try and mold her away from being a queen and into a good advisor or a good person? Or send her off somewhere on a spiritual or religious journey to find meaning? Or try to set her up to have a happy life and ending somewhere in a different country? Why does she just resign her first born child, one of the only two children she has, to such a terrible and tragic fate?
I know the reason why. It's because the mother is the scum of the earth and setting up her child to fail. What a terrible parent and queen. Why doesn't she grow up and take responsibility for bringing in another
living human being into the world? And her dad also needs to fucking grow a pair too for sitting by and letting this happen. He's also equally shitty.