As the messenger scrambled away, Klargus realized that while the steel of a sword was sharp, a well-placed letter could bleed a kingdom dry without losing a single knight. He sat back down, picked up his quill, and began drafting a marriage proposal to a lady with a very large dowry and even larger land holdings.
Calradia was changing, and Klargus was determined to own it, one signature at a time.
"Accept the trade," Klargus commanded. "And send a to King Harlaus. Tell him if he feasts one more time while our villages are raided by forest bandits, I’ll use my 'Persuasion' skill to convince the other lords to start a faction for a new claimant." Mount and blade warband diplomacy mod 1.167
The banners of Swadia fluttered weakly in the dry heat of the Dhirim plains. Count Klargus, once a man who solved every dispute with a lance, now sat at a mahogany desk within the keep, nursing a massive headache and a stack of diplomatic envoys.
Klargus sighed. In the old days, Sanjar Khan would have simply ridden over the hills with five hundred horse archers. Now, the Khan was sending polite letters. Klargus looked at his treasury report. His had been busy; taxes were being collected efficiently, and the local peasants actually liked him for once because he’d lowered the duty on grain. As the messenger scrambled away, Klargus realized that
"Wait," Klargus said, a smirk forming. "We have an with the Nords. Send an envoy to King Ragnar. Tell him the Vaegirs are looking soft this season. If he honors the defensive pact, we won’t just defend the pass—we’ll split the fiefs of the north by morning."
"My Lord," his chamberlain whispered, "the messenger from the Khanate has arrived. They don’t want war. They want a and a gift of twenty Flandian wines to ease the border tensions." "Accept the trade," Klargus commanded
Under the 1.167 Diplomacy protocols, the world of Calradia had become far more complicated than "point sword, charge."
