Chapter 31: The Temptation of Independence and Founding
"In the Hillsbrad Hills, you're just a Viscount of Lordaeron and a Baron of Alterac. Your lordship is less than ten miles long from east to west, and no more than twenty miles wide from north to south, and your people are less than thirty thousand. ”
"His Majesty Landon Wryon has promised me that as long as you are willing to go south and become a member of the Storm Kingdom, the day you arrive in Stormwind will be when you become the Marquis of the Kingdom!"
"The king also promised that your fief would not be less than a hundred miles long and two hundred miles wide. If you are willing to open up your own fiefdom, the king is willing to give you unlimited development rights! The king is willing to give you 100,000 of his immediate subjects, and the other Storm nobles are willing to give you 100,000 people collectively! ”
"You don't have to do anything about it. As long as you become a member of the Storm Kingdom, these can be given to you unconditionally. If you contribute to the kingdom, we are willing to give you anything but the throne of the king! ”
In the small living room on the third floor, Neras Elan changed his previous giggling appearance, and had a calm temperament that did not match his age.
That is the temperament cultivated by thousands of years of aristocratic tutors, the so-called great aristocratic temperament.
"Lordaeron and Alterac are too old-fashioned, and the relationship between the ruling classes of the northern countries is too complicated. Only the Stormwind Kingdom in the south is suitable for a new nobleman like you. Orondo, believe me, you won't be just a viscount forever. Go south and you'll soon be a duke if you want to! Even the Grand Duke is not impossible! In the entire human world, there are no more than fifteen Grand Dukes! ”
The title system of the human world in Azeroth was formulated by Emperor Soladin after referring to the elven kingdom.
For thousands of years, the divided kingdoms have followed this system of regulations.
According to this system of titles, the highest status is, of course, Soladin the Great, the only emperor in the history of Azeroth.
Next came the kings, and below them were the grand dukes, who were about the same as the kings of small countries.
Under the Grand Duke, there are five titles such as duke, marquis, earl, son, and male, and the lowest nobles outside the title are knights.
The founders of the current kingdoms are all the grand dukes of the Araso Empire.
The nobles of the human nations recognize each other's status. For example, the Grand Duke of the Stormwind Kingdom can also enjoy the privileges of the Grand Duke when he arrives in Lordaeron. Of course, the privileges enjoyed are those enjoyed by the Grand Dukes of other countries.
For the Storm Kingdom and Landon Ureon, he is actually willing to throw a title like the Grand Duke to win himself over.
Truth be told, Orondo was moved.
It's been more than a year since Azeroth descended, and a year since his life as a human nobleman and mage, Orondo has become familiar with the rules of many of the ruling classes of the human world.
If you can become a grand duke, you will be able to open a country in the human world, just like the seven kingdoms created by several human archdukes thousands of years ago, and the kings still have to admit - provided that they open the country independently, not seek to usurp the throne.
From a small country nobleman to the top ruling class in the human world, even a name will make most humans crazy.
Of course, these title systems, aristocratic systems, and unspoken rules of the ruling class can only affect the human world. Outside, except for elves, gnomes, and dwarves, other forces are too lazy to talk about the so-called human archduke.
If this wasn't an otherworld, if he didn't know that this was the calamity of Azeroth, Orondo might have accepted Neras Elam's woo at once.
Because of this, Orondo knows what titles are all illusory in the face of the catastrophe of the world and true power!
An undead natural disaster almost wiped out the human forces in the north en masse, leaving only a lone seedling in the south.
More than ninety percent of the human aristocracy, under the iron heel of natural disasters, whether it is the grand duke or the duke and earl, collectively rushed into the streets in the troubled times.
After the undead catastrophe, within the disaster-plagued Storm Kingdom, the status of the nobility also fell again and again, and there were many rebellions. After Varian returned to power completely, the so-called human aristocracy basically withdrew from the stage of world history.
And Orondo realizes that the Storm Kingdom is willing to spend such a large price to win him over, not because he is the illegitimate son of Landon Wryon or something.
Just because they have this value worthy of their wooing!
Is it worth it?
Orondo thinks he's worth it!
It's not because he's arrogant, it's not because he knows he has the eye of truth, and the number one thigh of Egwene.
It's because if you don't look at the words behind it, just his performance in Dalaran this year is also worthy of the kings to win him over like this!
Three times a year, Kenrito Supreme Wisdom Ribbon Honor; Continuing to influence the scholarly writings of the mage world; endless whimsy; At the age of fourteen, he entered the Kenrito High Spell Research Institute; At the age of fourteen, he was qualified to build his own mage tower in Violet Academy; excellent relationship with Quel'Thalas, etc., etc.; The gnomes are willing to speak for him and fight for the honor of the Ribbon of Supreme Wisdom of Kenrito......
Any mage who has one of these is already a genius among geniuses. With so many items put together, it is no longer something that a "genius" can describe.
Even Antonidas, who shook the whole of Dalaran more than twenty years ago and made the kings look sideways, was not as good as Orondo Sephorosa at the age of fourteen.
At that time, Antonidas was a native of Dalaran and refused to be wooed by all kingdoms. And now Orondo Sephorosa is a native of the Hills Bred Hills and a member of the aristocratic class!
Compared to Antonidas, it is clear that he looks easier to woo and more valuable to woo.
After thinking about this, Orondo smiled in front of Neras Elan, who still looked expressionless and serious.
"Are you telling the truth? Is the Storm Kingdom willing to woo me with this condition? The young viscount asked noncommittally.
Instead of responding directly to his question, Elan said, "It was about three months ago, do you remember?" I took a trip back to Stormwind. When I returned, my father and Landon Ureon asked me about you. You don't know, your reputation is known even to the far south. ”
"I ssure my father and my king that you will only be better than the rumors, and not worse. So, the chief court archmage suggested that the king woo you. And this price is my suggestion to His Majesty Landon Ureon. ”
At this, Neras Elan shrugged, "The wise king agreed. So here we are talking now. ”