CoS musings

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A RL friend (and hopefully soon complete addict) and I were chatting about CoS just now, and there is one thing which puzzles both of us.

Exactly what was Tarrant hoping to achieve by "unlocking" the Patriarch's potential?

From what I can tell, he does it because having a sorcerer at the head of the Church is the only way to make sure it will survive Calesta's onslaught. But the Patriarch uses his newfound abilities solely for his crusade against the Forest. Was that Tarrant's intention? Or was he hoping that the Patriarch would join him in his fight against Calesta somehow? I'm wondering whether this whole attempt wasn't a serious miscalculation on Tarrant's part. Because when you think about it, helping the Patriarch leads to the crusade and therefore to Andrys being in that study at exactly the wrong moment...

So, intentional sacrifice of the Forest, simple coincidence, or did Tarrant completely outsmart himself?