The Null have been aggressive, the false gods have been insidious. Neither are innocent, and the Null have honored their bargains. I don't mean to say you should prefer them by default; I know how that sounds around here.

[Rather, hopefully he's intelligent enough to see that keeping an open mind may be beneficial. At the very least, the city could use the conflict that two factions would create. Things would be so much more lively if these people were always at each other's throats.]