Okay, people the draw and the oath broken are two minor things here.
The Main Point is that Varalin threw in 3 Acts into the Gambit. This escalated things to the point of the entrance of the Lifeslayer Card. read the description of the Lifeslayer Card as to why the Gambit fucked you over so badly. If it is unbound it basically screws everyone involved equally.
A draw is a tie, even score yes. Which means no one wins. However in those gambits as mentioned in the rules there is only three ways of pulling out. Since neither of you had Salvation, and none of you died, you conceded, there is no equitable "we all give up here and everyone wins" scenario. You win, you lose or you lose and pull out.
As for the Oaths broken, it truly depends on how you want to look at it. The most obvious is that someone has simply broken his Oath. Which happened...unseen by all of you perhaps but it happened.
Beyond that many of your actions violate the agreement struck, the very agreement violates itself.
But that is an aside.
You are suprised by Kol? And the Acterians? Well let me put it this way.
Kol personally: He saw what you did there, in the Hall of the Gods, he watches as you haggeled over his kind like over playthings, over toys. As he was regarded as a useful tool to be repaired and changed at your whims. He saw all of it. He had generations to fester in eternal sensory deprived darkness and nurse his grudges, this has long gone beyond megalomania or mental illness he quite simply utterly despises the gods for what they have done to him.
He has literally become a vessel for the general feeling the Acterians have developed towards the lot of you and just because you take their mental illnesses away do you think they can no longer feel hate or pain or outrage? Shall they thank you all for taking away their free will? Shall they suddenly fall to their knees because they have been told the TRUTH that you all fucked with them in the worst ways? That you continue to interefere with them, that you basically carve up their worship with them having no say in the matter? That their homes are changed to your liking, their customs, their culture and their identities? That the very core of what makes them, well them, is to you nothing but clay that you can form and change at your whim because it amuses you or you want to? The Acterians have grown dark and hateful indeed, but not out of madness, the madness was a coping mechanism, in a universe in which they are utterly powerless, mere specks in the machinations of uncaring divine beings twisting and changing them as they please. As they hopelessly watch superior beings do with them whatever just comes to their minds. In this existencem their hopeless outrage has taken on a divine power of itself. And you actually increased it further, by granting them your gift of passion you allowed them to work towards one great goal...and if all you have left is outrage, misery and pent-up anger...entrance left the Mad Ophelia Lifeslayer.
Of course your worship might not be gone, not even an entire generation has passed inbetween the last turn and the beginning of this one. But you don't know any of that, because Kol has sealed of the caves to any divine interference. Unless you go down there yourself and fight him for the dominion over the Acterians, you will not know whats going on down there nor will you recieve a shred of power from their worship for Kol takes it away from you.
That aside, your main gain of power was through the blood sacrifices which you stopped in a most spectacular manner. After that there were no sacrifices made because no one could be sacrificed, and their own goddess told them "NO YOU DONT".
As to the last point. Imagine the following. You are imprisoned in utter darkness for generations, deprived of all sensory sensation, and then not only do you glean the entire truth about what the gods have done so far why the Acterians are as they are but you also watch what they have done to your people, what your own kin have become due to the actions of the gods. And then you watch them haggle over yourself and your kin like some old fish. How they plant to mold you so you can better fit into their plans. And more than that, fueled by your hate towards them, your insanity through the sheer ordeal you had to suffer through, through all that madness and pain one of them goes "i love you". By this point Kol felt nothing anymore, nothing but hate and disgust for the Gods and ESPECIALLY for Varalin. He sees in her nothing but a hypocrite no better than any of the meddling bastards, only she justifies her meddling behind a veneer of love and caring. When in truth she does no different than Lu or Phalanalin. The Latter two at least make no secret out of their true intentions, while Varalin hides it behind compassion.
Mind that is not my personal opinion, i am just explaining the reasoning of Kol and Acterians by this point.
Ninja-EDIT: four people ninjaed me i have no idea how much of thsi has been discussed so take the above as answer to the two posts above the four posts above this one.
Ninja-Edit2: damn you ninjas its 5 now
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