I’m just tossing out hypotheses…
Remember sanity is relative, like time and space…it’s all perspective.
But you are right in that I’m far more sane than Exador and Ramses, and Lenamare, they’re all obsessed with a really boring book.
And yes, power and fear make people afraid to open their mouths and tell them that they have no clothes. Exador in particular has an explosive temper…