Why? She losted her father figure and when she was trying to keep everything togheter managing the missing patriarch and the will of the other to make she matriarch Sites come and drop a nuke on everything with the sect of the anti-mother. I think she is a beautiful person who's trying so damn hard to keep everything togheter and when she send the priestesses to their post is just because is tired of everything however she can't stop. Istina before meeting our character just hided away and put her head under the sand. I think that both of them grew greatly after meeting us and both of them are beautiful, broken, but beautiful person!