That’s not what we’re saying either
Okay, here’s what I think happen.
Nero wants the sea to himself, Kessler says no, Nero blows up Kessler’s home, family, kingdom, and inhabitants, Nero kills Kessler, Nero decides to build fortress on the rocks that used to be winterveil, chaos gets zesty and magic-pollutes it, but evilly.
Checks out
Now here’s the issue
Your counterargument to “he didn’t blow it up because he wanted a fortress so he just committed genocide” is saying he didn’t intend to build a fortress on the island because he already intended to blow it up, but the problem is that reasoning only works if you make the assumption that he intended to blow it up, which would automatically make your argument correct. I’m saying he DIDNT intend to blow it up, and he DID intend to build a fortress
because if he had decided on building a fortress on winterveil’s island before defeating them, it would make less sense for him to completely destroy the island, and honestly seems like a better plan
Well, he DID blow it up, and he was still able to build a fortress there, so I think it all worked in his favor.
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This is the exact thing I’m saying didn’t happen
Okay, so we’re back on track then. Explain exactly what you’re getting at.
wait so are you saying that nero is responsible for the shape and layout of akursius and chaos just made the insanity party?
I did twice, sock did 3 times, go figure out basic reading comprehension before engaging in further arguments please 
Is that not what happened?
I mean, maybe a couple extra bricks fell over from Chaos.
I’m asking you to say it again, because last time you said it, we got into a whole thing about when Nero wanted a fortress there and why
I’m saying Nero premeditated a fortress being built on the remains of winterveil and therefore DIDNT destroy the physical island, chaos (which is the force of PURE DESTRUCTION) is the thing that physically altered the landmass
So Nero gets arrested, then Chaos destroys it, then they build a fortress?
No, Nero kills people, Nero builds a fortress, Nero gets arrested, chaos destroys the island
But you can tell from the environmental storytelling that the fortress, in fact, is intact aside from damage over the ages, and not the entire rest of winterveil.
oh actually you might be right now that i look at the architecture of the island, everything is connected by bridges spanning the gaps between the rocks, which would have to mean the fortress was built when those gaps already existed
Ah yes because the massive holes in the towers and the broken bridges were just part of Nero’s 
aesthetic when he built it
I do think that Chaos was responsible for a lot of the destruction, but I don’t think Nero was thinking about building a fortress there afterwards, I think that was Octavious’ call. The way Vetex talks about him in the Patreon chat, it really does seem like he had nothing but murder on the mind.
Chaos definitely did a little bit of damage, and so did age, but that was it.
Damn nevermind then
Still don’t think they built docks inside the massive rocky bay intentionally, but I’m willing to accept he caused at least some of the damage
Finally, an instance where something that I think makes perfect sense was actually right. I knew it’d happen someday!