History WeAreStrugglingTogether / Literature

* This plays strongly to the Soviets' advantage in ''Literature/RedArmy'', where lack of coordination makes NATO's resistance to invasion less effective while political divisions in the alliance [[spoiler: ultimately result in West Germany asking the Soviets for a cease-fire just as the U.S. has begun to create an effective counterattack].

* ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': A major hurdle that [[ApocalypseHow The Waves of Catastrophe]] brings is how Naofumi Iwatani has found himself in a three-ring circus of a struggle with his fellow Cardinal Heroes, The Kingdom of Melromarc, and The Three Heroes Church.
** The Three Heroes all think that the world they were summoned into [[WrongGenreSavvy was actually their favorite videogame and that the people around them along with their Companions are nothing more than NPCs.]] And that their interactions with their followers and other people had caused the Three Heroes to be seen as idiots. And them all collectively thinking that [[ShieldsAreUseless Shielders are terrible]] from their respective games, and that when the "Worthless Shielder" managed to completely destroy a Wave Boss that the three of them were struggling for hours against; they thought that Naofumi had cheated. [[spoiler:Making matters worse is that unlike Naofumi Iwatani; who was the proper candidate for becoming the new Shield Hero, the other Three Heroes were three of many other [[ThePoorlyChosenOne secondary candidates]] that [[TheChooserOfTheOne the Cardinal Weapons]] had in-reserve until they could find proper Heroes to wield them.]]

*** Ren Amaki, The Sword Hero had been given a group of earnest followers that genuinely wanted to do good for their world alongside Ren, however the Sword Hero [[IWorkAlone doesn't seem to want to work with them in getting them stronger together]], and his actions in killing a Dragon left the village sick with a rotting carcass he didn't bury simply because Ren thought it was part of a quest. [[spoiler:Not to mention that Gaelion was actually peacefully living in Melromarc as one of its perennial defenders who was only fighting against Ren instead of escaping [[PapaWolf because he was protecting his adoptive daughter Wyndia]]: whom the village actually sold into slavery after his death.]]

** King Aultcray and Princess Malty constantly working towards similar goals to undermine any effort for Naofumi to get stronger, simply due to him being The Shield Hero. In spite of the fact that the subsequent Waves of Catastrophe will only get stronger the more time passes between them, and that ''all Four Heroes'' need to be at the top of their game in order to stop them, and that the Waves are happening in other parts of the world and other Kingdoms outside of Melromarc. This mostly applies to King Aultcray and Princess Malty, whereas Queen Mirellia and Princess Melty want to avoid this and strive to make amends and appeasements.
*** King Aultcray's animosity towards Naofumi stems from his past trauma as a veteran of the war between Melromarc and the [[ALittleBitBeastly Demi-Human]] nation of Siltvelt; where his younger sister was apparently killed by a radical group. The majority of his anger to them is placed on The Shield Hero; whom the Demi-Humans revere as their own God due to previous Shield Heroes coming to their aid; [[LockedOutOfTheLoop while Naofumi himself is completely in the dark to all of this]] and sees Aultcray as an unjustifiable asshole that wants to make his life miserable by denying him any political or financial aid, labeling him as a Pariah, and [[MovingTheGoalposts constantly preventing him from getting his Party their Class Upgrades]] at a Dragon Hourglass (First by [[CashGate Cash-Gating]] him with 15 Gold per person to Class Up, then [[ObviousRulePatch by royal decree to prevent the Shield Heroes' Party from getting Class Upgrades]], and then planning to arrest them should Naofumi try leaving Melromarc to try Class Upgrading at another Countries' Dragon Hourglass): all this after he was KidnappedByTheCall to come save their world from the Waves in the first place. [[spoiler:To make matters worse, Aultcray wasn't even the ''first'' choice for leading Melromarc in the absence of his wife and ''actual'' ruler of Melromarc, Queen Mirellia who was in-attendance with the other world leaders and had left Lord Saetto as the temporary ruler of Melromarc. Mirellias' meeting with the other world leaders was to discuss about the Waves of Catastrophe, where the initial plan was for each nation to only summon a single Cardinal Hero with Melromarc being saved for last in the summoning. It was only when The First Wave had hit Luroluna Village which was in Lord Saettos' territory that led to the Lords' untimely death and King Aultcray becoming the new temporary ruler; where the KingConsort essentially jumped the gun to summon all four Heroes into Melromarc which caused a stir with the other world leaders and forcing his wife to stay away longer to assuage them from declaring war against Melromarc in-retaliation.]]
*** Princess Malty is considerably worse than Aultcray; while her Father does care about the safety and well-being of his subjects, Malty is an UpperClassTwit who would rather spend her time screwing over every man, woman, and child that tries to cross her path and [[TheSociopath taking sadistic pleasure in making the lives of those around her absolutely miserable]] to the point that if she [[DidntThinkThisThrough had a modicum of intelligence in that hollow skull of hers]] and did not at least care about her father, Princess Malty would be a shoe-horn in for TheStarscream trope. Queen Mirellia knows exactly how problematic her eldest daughter is that she made Maltys' younger sister Melty the Next-in-Line for the Throne, because of Meltys' more compassionate and logical nature.

** ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'': Being the earliest-written look at the New Republic after the Emperor died, it shows an unfortunate amount of political jockeying. Most of this can be blamed on Borsk Fey'lya and his attempts to gain power, but he's not alone. Garm Bel Iblis, after Bail Organa's death, had actually split off and formed his own rebellion against the Empire, since he thought Mon Mothma was becoming too authoritarian. One of the many plot points in the trilogy is his realizing that a great deal of her reasoning was due to TheChainsOfCommanding, and they could work together again.
** Later books in the same continuity have the Empire shatter into squabbling warlords who fight over the true leadership while only weakening each other. In the ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'', the one success [[GeneralFailure Admiral Daala]] had was in reuniting those fragments and handing them over to Pellaeon after she'd lost a lot of the newly-reformed Empire's forces. Pellaeon worked at keeping the [[VestigialEmpire Imperial Remnant]] together, [[Literature/HandOfThrawn then]] decided that it could only survive by [[PeaceConference making peace with the New Republic]]. Of course, parts of the Empire didn't agree...

WeAreStrugglingTogether in {{Literature}}.

* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium:
** In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' books, the elves, dwarves, and men are constantly squabbling with each other when they should be joining forces to fight the EvilOverlord. Fortunately, they never actually come to blows. Lothlórien's elves distrust Gimli the dwarf, and so all the Fellowship must go blind into the path to Lórien (at Aragon's suggestion to avoid singling out Gimli). Legolas laments this, though his complaint is somewhat undermined by the fact that he was perfectly willing to have Gimli blindfolded, and only objects when he must be as well.
--->'''Legolas:''' Alas for the folly of these days! Here all are enemies of the one Enemy, and yet I must walk blind, while the sun is merry in the woodland under leaves of gold!\\
'''Haldir:''' Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.
** Faramir captures Frodo and Sam, and spends some time trying to ascertain if they're working for Sauron. Sam gets upset at this, and (in a tone adults use to talk to mouthy children) tells Faramir off for wasting time and commenting on how Sauron would love seeing this. Amused but unimpressed, Faramir tells Sam to sit down, shut up, and not speak of things he doesn't understand. Trying to make sure they ''aren't'' servants of the enemy is his job, and if he was as impatient as Sam, he would have killed them already.
** This is taken up to eleven in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', where Mandos actually states in a prophecy that the elves will fail to defeat Morgoth because they are too busy fighting each other. [[YouCantFightFate 500 years and several million corpses later, he is proved right.]]
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series may as well be called ''Fighting the Wrong People''. While everyone agrees that everyone needs to work together in order to win the imminent Last Battle, most factions are also of the opinion that this needs to happen by them conquering the world. For instance, the Seanchan follow mostly the same prophecy everyone follows -- but their version disagrees with everyone else's, maybe by as little as one sentence out of an entire book, so they believe they need to subdue the [[ChosenOne Dragon Reborn]] in order to have a chance of winning. The Dragon Reborn controls about half the continent, which required forcibly overcoming many struggling factions, embodying this trope right there. The outcome is predictable. Others such as various Aes Sedai factions see the need to cooperate, but only so long as they control everything behind the scenes (even if it means they have to ''kidnap and abuse the Chosen One''.) It certainly doesn't help that, for a while, ''every'' major faction had a [[TreacherousAdvisor Treacherous second-in-command]] loyal to the Dark One.

* It takes a while for Rob of ''Literature/AnOutcastInAnotherWorld'' to convince the Elves that he’s on their side, but once he does, they put a lot of faith in him as an ally.
* In the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers' novel ''Literature/PrisonersOfPower'', the mind-controlling totalitarian oligarchy is opposed by what may initially seem to be an unified rebel "Underground". However, to quote the novel itself, "the Underground wasn't a political party. What's more, it wasn't even a front of political parties". Its members couldn't even agree as to whether or not the mind control has to go. Factions range from blatant fascists (who want to overthrow the government and keep the mind control towers) to "biologists" (who just want to destroy the towers, but don't mind keeping the government -- so they can't even agree about that), and there are factions within factions as well. It is explicitly pointed out that many prominent Underground leaders are either agents or secret allies of the government. The protagonist ultimately doesn't even bother trying to rally them, instead striking a deal with one of the less secure government leaders for inside information, recruiting a few of the more sensible Underground members and blowing up the mind control center without consulting anybody else. It is implied in later Noonverse novels that he and his allies then had to put down rebellions by some of the other groups, even though the country was already a terrible mess by then due to mind control withdrawal and such. It also doesn't help that [[spoiler:the protagonist destroying the towers also ruined the efforts of human agents to gradually improve the situation on the planet. The incident is the last nail in the coffin of civilians exploring unknown space]].
* In ''Literature/TheObernewtynChronicles'' this happens with the main rebellion against the oppressive Council and [[CorruptChurch Herder Faction]]. The various rebel leaders all act pretty much independently, and have rather different ideas about both methods and what they want to happen afterwards -- in particular ''who'' will replace the Council. Eventually it resolves into [[spoiler:Malik and cronies reluctantly and temporarily agreeing with everyone else.]] [[spoiler:Or at least pretending to...]]
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'': Being the earliest-written look at the New Republic after the Emperor died, it shows an unfortunate amount of political jockeying. Most of this can be blamed on Borsk Fey'lya and his attempts to gain power, but he's not alone. Garm Bel Iblis, after Bail Organa's death, had actually split off and formed his own rebellion against the Empire, since he thought Mon Mothma was becoming too authoritarian. One of the many plot points in the trilogy is his realizing that a great deal of her reasoning was due to TheChainsOfCommanding, and they could work together again.
** Later books in the same continuity have the Empire shatter into squabbling warlords who fight over the true leadership while only weakening each other. In the ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'', the one success [[GeneralFailure Admiral Daala]] had was in reuniting those fragments and handing them over to Pellaeon after she'd lost a lot of the newly-reformed Empire's forces. Pellaeon worked at keeping the [[VestigialEmpire Imperial Remnant]] together, [[Literature/HandOfThrawn then]] decided that it could only survive by [[PeaceConference making peace with the New Republic]]. Of course, parts of the Empire didn't agree...
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', years of FantasticRacism have caused various magical creatures to be suspicious of wizards and avoid them at all costs (at the same time, wizards are equally suspicious or determined to avoid said magical creatures). Almost all of them are threatened by Voldemort, but aren't really willing to work together [[spoiler:until they see that Harry "died" at the end of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', at which point virtually every living being against Voldemort takes up arms to fight against the Death Eaters. All are later seen gathered peacefully in the Great Hall together.]]
* To some extent, the Last International in ''Literature/TheStarFraction'', which seems to be mainly an umbrella label for all the forces fighting USUN. "...the ultimate conspiracy-- nothing BUT front organizations. The fronts are real, the conspiracy isn't."

* The situation that prevailed on Barrayar at the beginning of the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
-->'''Aral Vorkosigan:''' I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', this is more or less the [[PlanetOfHats Hat]] of the Alethi people. Their religions glorifies competition in everything from literal combat to conversations to painting. It's not simply enough to be good at something, you must be beating someone else at it.
** Even when they are technically working together, ''Literature/TheWayOfKings2010'' shows us how the Alethi Highprinces are much more concerned with outdoing each other and getting more wealth and glory. As a result they've been at war for years with no end in sight, as they're effectively entirely unable to coordinate on any long term plans, making actually winning effectively impossible, despite their overwhelming advantages.
*** And even while they are technically united (and actually not directly fighting) in the foreign war, back home their armies still fight each other over minor land disputes and so on. In a sane world (or even a sane country on their world) this would be called civil war, but for the Alethi it's simple status quo.
** Even the [[ApocalypseHow end of the world]] isn't enough to get proper unity, as in ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' we see their numerous different conspiracies all working at cross-purposes to deal with the Desolation in their own way.
*** First and foremost, we have Dalinar, the only one trying to fight honorably and unite everyone against the coming darkness. Sadeas spends the entire book undermining him every single way he can.
*** The Sons of Honor think that by bringing back the Voidbringers and the Desolation, the Heralds will come back as well, bringing the Church back to prominence and fixing everything wrong with the world. They're completely unaware of the fact that the Heralds ''never left'', having abandoned their oaths millennia ago in favor of wandering the world in anonymity.
*** The group serving the Diagram are following a plan [[spoiler:Taravangian]] wrote in his most brilliant moment, detailing how to put him slowly in control of the whole world in order to stop the Desolation, manipulating spren and people alike--including assassinating pretty much every other ruler in the world.
*** The Ghostbloods are apparently at odds with anyone they decide is in their way, and are more than happy to kill their opponents. They also have numerous [[DimensionalTraveler world-hoppers]] among their number.
*** Eshonai, the Parshendi Shardbearer, ordered the death of the Alethi king to keep the gods of her people from returning and turning them into Voidbringers, and are now fighting a losing war against the Alethi; too bad [[spoiler:her sister unintentionally brings the Fused back, causing exactly what the listeners had feared]].
*** And finally, several of these are implied to be splinter factions of the same group, as the Diagram and the Sons of Honor both take their cues from [[spoiler:the murdered king Gavilar]], and the Ghostbloods make a passing reference to the Diagram and seem to know what they're up to, implying that between all the double agents and so on it's basically impossible to tell who's actually a part of which group.
** It simply gets worse in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', as Dalinar attempts to unite all the leaders of the world to fight the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Desolation]]. It doesn't help that everyone starts off assuming it's a trick and the Alethi are looking to conquer them, and even those he does manage to convince never seem to agree on ''how'' to actually go about fighting their enemies and saving humanity.

* ''Literature/HomageToCatalonia'', Creator/GeorgeOrwell's nonfiction work about the Spanish Civil War, depicts the same thing as in the ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'' example.
%%* The Republican-SJC coalition in ''Literature/BugJackBarron''.
* The underground in WilliamRotsler's ''Literature/ToTheLandOfTheElectricAngel'', which comprises everyone from the Pope to free-love hedonists. They actually pull off a successful revolution under the protagonist (who gets elected Pope so he can lead the uprising, and thereafter has to answer "Is the Pope Catholic?" with "No").
* In ''Literature/TheLeftHandOfDarkness'', Estraven cites the "old proverb" (which Genly suspects he made up himself) that "Karhide is not a nation but a family quarrel." Ironically, the main villain is the one trying to do something about this.
* ''Literature/DarknessAtNoon'' has a {{flashback}} to Rubashov excommunicating a Party member for suggesting that revolutionaries should make common cause with more moderate opponents of tyrannical regimes.
* The Capitol uses this to their advantage through their cruel ritual of Literature/TheHungerGames. The Hunger Games were, in fact, first employed because the thirteen districts rose up against their oppressors. After they were thwarted, ending with the total annihilation of District Thirteen, the Capitol decreed that each district had to send one boy and one girl to an arena where they would fight to death and only one could survive. Understandably, all the districts despise the Capitol for what they do to them and their children... However, the Hunger Games became so ritualistic that the districts are more preoccupied with training their chosen children so that one of them can survive and beat the kids from the rivaling districts, rather than trying to overthrow the Capitol and end the oppression once and for all.
* The first Martian Revolution in the ''Literature/RedMarsTrilogy'' fits this trope to a T. The general disorganization of the revolution leads to catastrophic destruction, the death of several main characters, and [[spoiler:the total retreat of all rebels into hiding. This failed revolution is what makes them get it right the second time.]]
* {{Discussed}} in ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress''. Professor Bernardo de la Paz, the brains behind LaResistance, advocates using a cell system, with no more than three members per cell even at the very top echelon, because in his words more than three people can't agree what to eat for dinner, let alone how to fight a revolution. Much later in the book, when Manny seeks advice from an ''ad hoc'' council of people he respects, he finds himself agreeing with Prof as they all begin bickering.

* The Resistance Trilogy by Clive Egleton depicts LaResistance to a [[AlternateHistory Soviet-occupied Britain]]. In the final novel the Soviets are pulling out of Britain due to war with China. This should be a time of victory, but instead the 'moderate' wing forms an alliance with TheQuisling government to eliminate their hardline members (including the protagonist).

* ''Literature/{{Domina}}'':
** The cultures of the city have been fighting each other for a very very long time, and the fact that there's some sort of supernatural zombie master running around isn't going to stop them. One of the running subplots is the local ReasonableAuthorityFigure trying to get everyone to understand exactly how dangerous the enemy is, with slow success. The worst is probably the Nosferatu vampires; two broods were fighting when they were attacked by screamers, and it didn't even slow them down.
--->'''Adam:''' This is the same city where people were perfectly willing to fight a civil war while a zombie apocalypse dropped on their heads.
** The kemos are known for being rather chaotic even by the standards of the city. It probably doesn't help that their individual clans are so ephemeral; it's not uncommon for one subculture to be completely wiped out, only to return again months later when someone else decides to get those same toys. During the [[spoiler:American invasion]], the kemo front is the only one that has serious trouble, and it's repeatedly lampshaded that the problem is that the kemos are just terrible about coordinating on anything.
--->'''Captain:''' They busted in, a dozen [[MoCapMecha echoes]] leading the way, and tossed a grenade at our supplies. The Alphas are trying to bring more in, but you know they're like cats in a bag on a good day.
* This is the ''ideal'' state of the Romulan government in ''Literature/{{Rihannsu}}''. The Romulans have had bad experiences in the past with dictators so the senators and praetors are ''supposed'' to spend lots of time infighting to prevent tyranny. Unfortunately [[BigBad the Three]] (a trio of praetors) managed to work around this in the novels' timeframe.
* ''Literature/SchooledInMagic'': Much is made from the fact that the Allied Lands are constantly bickering and fighting with each other, instead of the necromancers. It's stated all of them would have been conquered long ago if the necromancers had not been doing the same thing.
* ''Literature/TheSilerianTrilogy'': It is explicitly stated that one reason Sileria has been ruled by foreigners for so long stems from them fighting each other constantly, and when they finally ''do'' manage some unity, this only lasts long enough to win their independence before it falls apart with civil war breaking out.
* ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': In book 1 (''Blue Moon Rising''), the barons are just unbelievable. They actually [[spoiler: tried to stage a revolution ''in the middle of a continent-wide demonic incursion!'']]
* In ''Literature/GrentsFall'', at least six different groups are or were rebelling against Osbert Grent. Henry Darro eventually merges most of the surviving ones together.

** Even when they are technically working together, ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'' shows us how the Alethi Highprinces are much more concerned with outdoing each other and getting more wealth and glory. As a result they've been at war for years with no end in sight, as they're effectively entirely unable to coordinate on any long term plans, making actually winning effectively impossible, despite their overwhelming advantages.

** The Three Heroes all think that the world they were summoned into [[WrongGenreSavvy was actually their favorite videogame and that the people around them along with their Companions are nothing more than NPCs.]] And that their interactions with their followers and other people had caused the Three Heroes to be seen as idiots. And them all collectively thinking that [[ShieldsAreUseless Shielders are terrible]] from their respective games, and that when the "Worthless Shielder" managed to completely destroy a Wave Boss that the three of them were struggling for hours against; they thought that Naofumi had cheated. [[spoiler:Making matters worse is that unlike Naofumi Iwatani; who was the proper candidate for becoming the new Shield Hero, the other Three Heroes were [[ThePoorlyChosenOne secondary candidates]] that [[TheChooserOfTheOne the Cardinal Weapons]] had in-reserve until they could find proper Heroes to wield them.]]

* ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': A major hurdle that [[The Waves of Catastrophe]] brings is how Naofumi Iwatani has found himself in a three-ring circus of a struggle with his fellow Cardinal Heroes, The Kingdom of Melromarc, and The Three Heroes Church.

** The Three Heroes Church as the central religious authority of Melromarc holds The Sword, Spear, and Bow Heroes in high-regards. This comes to severely bite them in the ass constantly where the current set of Three Heroes they worship spend their time doing inane activities and unknowingly bringing about death and destruction from their actions, all the while Naofumi Iwatani; [[TheAntiChrist "The Devil Of The Shield"]], follows in their wake and [[TheAlmightyJanitor not only fixes the problems that the Three Heroes leave behind, but also manage to make the situation better overall.]] This prompts the Three Heroes Church to stage a Coup against Melromarc to do away with the Royal Family [[TheTheocracy in order to take control themselves]], along with attempting to kill the "False Heroes" and "The Devil" in order to save face with their religion, with the goal of afterwards summoning in a new set of Four Cardinal Heroes all over again... and immediately kill the new Shield Hero afterwards. Which all flies in the face of all logic of their world because The Cardinal Heroes aren't summoned in to act as objects of worship for the Church, they are here to... y'know, '''''SAVE THE WORLD FROM DESTRUCTION'''''. And that The Waves are still on-going, and that the only way to beat them is to have all Four Heroes to defend the world against it. And that even if a single Cardinal Hero dies, the subsequent Waves will become even stronger, and the only way for a new Hero to be summoned in would be to have all four current set of Heroes to die. If the Church even went through with this plan: The Waves of Catastrophe will become FIVE TIMES STRONGER than they currently are.

** This is taken UpToEleven in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', where Mandos actually states in a prophecy that the elves will fail to defeat Morgoth because they are too busy fighting each other. [[YouCantFightFate 500 years and several million corpses later, he is proved right.]]

** In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' books, the elves, dwarves, and men are constantly squabbling with each other when they should be joining forces to fight the EvilOverlord. Lothlórien's elves distrust Gimli the dwarf, and so all the Fellowship must go blind into the path to Lórien:

* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'':
** In ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'', while the Alethi Highprinces are not actively fighting against each other, they are much more focused on outdoing each other and getting wealth and glory then they are on working together in battle, making and pursuing a long-term strategy, and generally winning the war they came to fight.
** While the Alethi Highprinces don't fight each other on the Shattered Plains (where they are all camped, and which has become the ''de facto'' center of the kingdom), back home their armies still fight each other over land, uniting only when foreigners try to invade. In a sane world it would be called civil war, but they've been doing it for so long that it's just normal.
** It's revealed to be worse in the sequel, ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance''. Not only are the Highprinces still squabbling, but there are a dozen different conspiracies all working at cross-purposes to stop the [[ApocalypseHow Desolation]] their own way.

*** The group serving the Diagram are following a plan [[spoiler:Taravangian]] wrote in his most brilliant moment, detailing how to put him slowly in control of the whole world, manipulating spren and people alike--including assassinating pretty much every other ruler in the world.
*** The Ghostbloods are searching for Urithru, seat of the Knights Radiant, for an unclear reason, and rival Jasnah Kholin for the knowledge. They will kill anyone who stands in their way, and have at least one [[DimensionalTraveler world-hopper]] among their number, likely more.
*** Eshonai, the Parshendi Shardbearer, ordered the death of the Alethi king to keep the gods of her people from returning and turning them into Voidbringers, and are now fighting a losing war against the Alethi; too bad [[spoiler:her sister is some sort of Voidbringer mole, and causes exactly what Eshonai was trying to prevent]].
*** And finally, several of these are implied to be splinter factions of the same group, as the Diagram and the Sons of Honor both take their cues from [[spoiler:the murdered king Gavilar]], and the Ghostbloods make a passing reference to the Diagram and seem to know what they're up to.
** ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'' takes it even further as Dalinar Kholin must now attempt to force not only just the Alethi Highprinces to work together, but also the leaders of the rest of the world. The Highprinces are still quarreling though and the conspiracies continue to conspire. Struggle indeed.