@spare-ink , With all these theories, I feel like a dungeons and dragon player...
Dungeon Master: "Your queen" is locked up in an iron box and can't get out.
Fandom: sure she can, she knows wyrd marks - rolls die.
Dungeon Master: hmmm it seems she can get out.
Dungeon Master: I've trapped "your queen" by placing her mate in a volcano, she cannot destroy "that bitch Maeve" without fear of killing her mate.
Fandom: Nah she can use the volcano
Dungeon Master: no, that's not possible
Dungeon Master: you always ruin my fun. Ok, ok, the volcanos power is used to destroy "that bitch Maeve" but not your mate and your mate provides your queen with an attack bonus. *shakes head*
Fandom: ok now we want everyone to have a happy ending....
Dungeon Master: you have to roll amazing rolls for every. Single. Character. I am not letting you win this without causalities.
Fandom: keeps rolling the best damn rolls in the history of the game.
Fandom: k, we done now. Thanks for being our dungeon Master!
Dungeon Master: yeah whatever, I swear you're cheating... you have to have loaded dice or something?
Fandom: sorry what did you say? I can't hear you over my characters all getting happy endings.