Native lineage still means nothing, then. It’s still a qualitative matter. (You can take the demigod out of the stringent politics, but you can’t take the stringent politics out of the demigod.)

“If it is qualifications you seek, then I will tell you mine. I am known as the Blade of Miquella. I served as the guard and the weapon of my twin brother, protected his yet-born city, and have lead armies in his name. I have felled thousands. And the only defeat I have ever known was the one that brought me here.”

And yet she still may return.

“If there is a force under which I may be felled, the very order of the world is in danger of incredible change.”