They what?

That's a strange thing to ask you to make, when they could have asked for my help, or undertaken a quest for the Shacklebreaker left in the Dream. I wonder, are they looking to free someone from an unwanted bond, or exile someone who doesn't fall in line with the rest of the collective.

I don't think anyone here could quite manage that, but as unstable as things are, I wouldn't trust them not to try.

...There are some checks on the original version, and so on the one I carry. It can break any chain, but anyone trying to override someone else's choices by shattering their willing bonds wouldn't be able to use it as anything but a very old gravitic weapon.

Especially when there's no guarantee that severing them from the other Conductors would let them retire. Or that severing them from Questing Country entirely wouldn't have terrible side effects.

[There's a huff of slightly embarrassed laughter.]

Not quite. Legends might take firmer hold when they're about a small handful of people, but a lot of people stood and fought.