"My Lord, are you confident that the invited Lords will submit when they see the grandeur of Goldenveil?" Doran asked, hands clasped behind his back, his gaze sweeping across the barracks' courtyard, now empty.
"Some will. Some won't even deserve to submit," Ethan replied, letting out a sigh. "Many of the elves and dwarves will be willing to surrender, as will a good portion of the humans."
"But not all of their settlements will be preserved. Many sit in poor locations and will have to be relocated to Goldenveil.
In that case, their lords wouldn't even become vassals. They'd lose all their authority and would have to settle for being ordinary citizens.
Even if I preserve some noble titles for them, and I'll have to, it'll still be difficult to convince them to give up their own power."
Ethan paused briefly before continuing.
