machinations, skulduggery, subterfuge, treachery, ambiguousness, mystification, conspiracies, nefariousness, perplexes, wrangles, shenanigans, kerfuffles, inconstancy, quarrels, imbroglios, sordidness, mistery, jealousies, insinuations, squabbles, backstabbing, vendetta, shadiness, baffles, chicanery, skullduggery, interpenetration, disputations, craziness, infighting, embroils, speculations, mesmerism, nebulousness, meddlesomeness, monologuing, politicking, torments, oneupmanship, gamesmanship, factionalism, latent hostility, manipulations, deviousness, machinated, caprice, revenges, mystery, enigma, dramatis personae, vagary, perfidy, improbabilities, bewitchment, convolutions, byzantine, dissensions, knavery, disjuncture, cajolery, venality, rodrigo borgia, unpleasantness, acrimonies, idiosyncrasy, deceptions, ingenuities, capriciousness, doubleness, vicissitudes, duplicity, bizarreness, feuds, allures, mysteriousness, peculiarity, deceit, fascinations, contestation, prefiguring, seductions, pettier, infatuation, murkiness, disinformation, malevolence, maneuvering, jobbery, calumny, dubiousness, phantasms, hullabaloo, controversies, territorialism, obliqueness, rivalries, conjecture, bickering, exoticness, sophoclean, obsessions, indirectness, intrigue, cabals, spies, aggressions, encroachments, wars, betrayals, humiliations, intriguers, bickerings, emissaries, machination, overtures, provocations, scheming

connive, designer, intrigue, intriguer, scheme