You decide to agree to the request of monetary compensation for taking Elspeth away from her family.
You arrange for the marriage to take place on first day of the first week of Summer, so that Lamian royal family has time to prepare for the visit.
Von Saltyburg leaves, quite pleased with the deal.
1000 CCE, 3rd Week of Spring
You learn that the Republican rebels have seized the capital of Loretania, and have established the Serene Republic of Loretania. The whereabouts of the Loretanian royal family are unknown to your spies.
Your commanders send you reports that the last of Revolutionary outposts have fallen. Pursuant to your order, over 800 Rufian Revolutionaries have been shot to death, a fifth of this women and children of Revolutionary leaders and commanders.
The Seimus of Rufia is in its first session!
Seimus is the Rufian legislative council that your late father, Jacobus IV, consented to be created so that lawgivers and representatives could meet together to discuss and prepare reforms of the laws and priviledges. The Great War postponed the Seimus' first session, and the Civil War erupted shortly afterwards, so neither Seimus nor its ideas could be finalized.
The Seimus has the priviledge of autonomous law-making, but a stipulation in Articles of Seimus grants you priviledge of 'royal presence'.
A) Bah! I need not mingle with the lawyers and bureaucrats!
B) Such a grand moment as First Session of Seimus couldn't occur without my presence! To the Seimus Court!