[ Hm. A fair point. ]

Perhaps he did not intend to die. [ And, helpfully: ] I had a great-uncle of some sort during the Occupation who would dress as a Chevalier, cross the border, and terrorize the peasantry. To be fair, I think it was more to get his sadistic jollies than it was to really try to get the Orlesian peasantry to rise up, but...