Hope Blossoms In His Dark Heart

Things were finally heating up and Athenia's curiosity had tenfold in recent days. She was curious not only for the prospect of war and how to prepare for it but the eerie thought that somehow that dead soul attached to Raven was making him do certain things. The plan to build an army came to him first, why? Why was Nightsilver a man sure to be dead affecting the decisions of the hero of today? And why was it that his suggestion to Raven was the conclusion she herself derived with a few days of delay?