The Order of the Ancients begins to resolve as a structure rather than a collection of individuals. What the game reveals here is institutional rot, the way a system built on purpose calcifies into self-preservation. The men at its edges are still true believers. The ones at its center are protecting the center.

Eivor dismantles it from the outside in. That is the only direction available. Empires do not reform. They are replaced by whatever had the patience to outlast them.