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[@Gummi Bunnies]
Well, do they usually take part in things like this? From what I understand of the Umineko world, the Witches spend most of the time watching the epic battles from the sidelines, not really getting involved. Alternatively, they could try and recruit some of the more powerful of the current faction leaders into the fold.
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That's usually how it works, but from what I've seen in the second half of Umineko EP8, the Witches do actually get involved with matters similar to these. Specifically, the characters Battler and Ange do get involved actively with matters like this... so I could just have the two of them notice the whole impending situation and try to ally with some of the factions (that aren't so malicious, since you know, they had a whole dispute against the Voyager Witches at some point).