//Sorry helmacon but I only noticed your vote after I wrote this huge update ;v
You decide to ignore the rumors, as they're obviously lies.
Ten days later you receive an urgent report from the westlands; King Elran III with his courtiers and two hundred soldiers of guard has entered Methiant through Ankurvat, and is slowly traveling toward your capital.
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The subsequent reports mention no incidents except one where an old lady threw a rotten apple at Elran's carriage (she missed). The lady in question was interrogated, flogged and then tossed into dungeon.
1099 AD, Mid-Autumn
With great pomp and much ruckus, King Elran III's entourage enters the capital city. Methiantese minstrels play for the arriving dignitaries while your maids prepare the guest rooms. The westerners are clad in yellows, greens, greys and blacks, which is slightly contrasts to blues, reds, purples and greens of your homeland.
A great feast is thrown in the palace halls; all sixty of Elran's courtiers are fed with delicious foods and watered with strong wines and ales. King Elran III personally toasts your leadership and governance, and hopes that there will be much to gain from closer relationship between Eldrican and Methiant.
Afterwards, your courtiers are quick to establish some ties with foreign nobles and exchange rumors and information.
For example, the Eldricans are highly militant peoples. While they were engaged in the war with Kiwis and Kois in their north and east, they were also skirmishing with Republic of Calvendocia and the State of Prawlant, both maritime powers which keep Eldricans from reaching open waters.
You also hear about the apparently very ancient roots of Eldrican Kingdom, which are derived from a city-state of Era, apparently dating to the times when your own peoples were ruled by chieftains and warlords of proto-Luathbas.
The nations of Calvendocia and Prawlant are, according to what your courtiers learned, both maritime, medium-sized nations that enjoy lots of wealth thanks to trade and hilly terrain abundant in various ores. The Calvendocians engage in slave trade (a grave offense to people in your region), and have several overseas colonies, where they exchange fruits and metals for gemstones and furs that are abundant in the lands of some people called 'Lefkandi'. The Prawlants are an inclusive republican state, where humans and dwarves enjoy nearly equal status; a small Elven minority also dwells there, mostly those who abandoned the old ways and moved out of the great Forest of Tisilenteliya.
A little bit of information has been shed on the resurgence of Eldrican and their ties to the Cult of Damed; apparently the first Eldrican king was a native who joined Damdamian Republic as a soldier, gaining fame and wealth, then retired to his homeland, and then took arms against the horse nomads that plagued the lands in the west in the previous centuries, overthrowing them and shattering their proud rule thanks to heavy donations from former Damdamian comrades and friendly Senators.
Your scribes managed to gain lots of useful information about the distant west. They now know the location of Calvendocia, some minor domains and few dwarven halls, and that the western lands are mostly grasslands and riverplains with rarely a mountainous region. You can expect that the Map will be greatly expanded in the coming years.
Finally, the afternoon gives to the evening, and the feasting and celebrating descends into heavy drinking and bold men wooing feisty women (and vice versa). What you did not expect was to see King Elran III, a man slightly older than you, make some flirtatious overtones towards your wife! While no man is free from temptation after consuming lots of alcohol and considering your wife's natural beauty, this would be a slight on your reputation if it wasn't for your wife's valiant and successful attempts at shooing Elran away.
Still, Segeda is yours, not Elran's, wife. You therefore decide to...
A) Grab something heavy and smack the foreign casanova over the head so that he learns his place!
B) Using big words explain to Elran that your wife is off-limits, thank you very much.
C) Keep it to yourself, for now.
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