User blog comment:Emperor Maximus/Age of Industry: What Next?/@comment-29458028-20141207140841

Besides the new page on a dark, evil and twisted new magical system, which I think can go in in the next RP, written by me (it's still work in progress), I think several of these ideas are not mutually exculsive.

You see, magic was never a huge part of AoI and probably will never be. Many events can converge. The Princess, consumed by her desire to hurt, she can potentially turn to the power of the Pacts of Darkness to fulfill her desires to unmake the people she hurt.

She could be hiding out in Samarkand, perhaps even creating a cult around her. The strange happening could just coincide with a raid of Meladran's in that particular area of Samarkand - a painful coincidence.

As the darkness unravels and the princess, a shadow of her former self, seeks to reclaim her position and meet her lover again, she leaves a trail of broken, bloodied corpses. But remember, it was those in AoI: Bound in Blood and Steel which made her like that.

Maybe we can aid her in her quest to reunite with Louis and her children by force, or stop her?

I dunno, this is just some huge ass idea I had.