"Several possible courses of action are open to me," he says. "But the fact that gates can be made to Fairyland from an external location means that the Queenscourt's interests are best served by immediately conquering that external location, and since I can't plausibly escape the Queenscourt, I must end up conquering one or the other. The Queenscourt is tolerably comfortable but I have no desire to take over an entire planet full of presumably innocent mortals for its sake. On the other hand, conquering the Queenscourt is not exactly a trivial proposition even with the ability to gate in from outside and the names of several prominent court members."