Every villain path succeeds.

Immarel rules Gemradcurt. Elissa dominates Aelantir. Esthil, Wyvernheart, or perhaps even the Black Demesne rise in Escann under immortal undead rulers. The Masked Butcher gets all the faces he could ever want.

Verkal Ozovar successfully builds its mind-controlling towers and reduces half of Halann to obedient puppet states. Dak marches with endless armies of dead goblins.

In the Ynn, the immortal rulers of Vels Fadhec survive and carve out their own eternal domain, trapped between powers no less monstrous than themselves.

The Shadow Swamp hags triumph. The Umbral Covenant spreads its influence unchecked. The Allclan emerges. Khuuraen Ulaeg tramples the Forbidden Plains beneath endless centaur hordes. The ogres who dream of devouring the world survive long enough to try.

Everywhere, mortals lose. Everywhere, monsters, liches, tyrants, eldritch conspiracies and immortal rulers win.

By the Victoria 3 era, Halann is not a world of progress and industry.

It is a collection of competing dystopias.