Talk:Phillip Beltram 3rd/@comment-110.139.224.79-20200716120726/@comment-44330163-20200716132042

When Aria left the Bertram kingdom her only speakable of achievement was to reach the first place in swordcraft on the royal academy, not something to be so proud of or really worthy of saying that she needs to be scouted by all means, yes,  later she earnt her fill as an adventurer too, but again nothing unique enough, Aria certainly was succesful later under Liselotte's patronage, but that was because Liselotte decided to put her under her wing and even gave her a demon sword, no matter how long she had stayed on the Bertram kingdom, even without her house falling she at maximum would have reached a rank similar to Vanessa's, what really made a difference for Aria was meeting with Liselotte not staying or not on the Bertram kingdom.

In Rio's case he kept the majority of his talent hidden on purpose, what he showed to everyone except Celia was the potential for becoming a good knight, just that, nothing really that special, and even with the few of his total ability that he showed to others there wasn't anyone who doubted that he could have had a succesful career as a knight has he really tried, but,  when putting on the scale a single promising knight against the kingdom's stability it's obvius that the kingdom will weight more no matter how unforgivable is what they did to Rio. Besides in Rio's case he would have left the Bertam kingdom anyway even if it turned out to be not that bad of a place, here Philip talent as a ruler is irrelevant.

Lucius certainly showed a skill on Alfred's level before the fall of his house, but what really made that the crown to not want to have anything to do with him was his bad personality and how bad he was at managing his relationship with the rest of the nobles rotten or not. In the WN Nidor defined Lucius as a plague of the battlefield that makes uncomfortable both enemies and allies, so it's hard to say that Phillip was mistaken letting him go or that Lucius was someone worthy of being protected with or without talent. In Lucius' case it's even possible that Phillip wasn't the king yet to begin with for what we know.