"Rostland's freedom will be bought with our lives. Yes, Jamandi does not dissemble. She admits that she grows

"Rostland's freedom will be bought with our lives. Yes, Jamandi does not dissemble. She admits that she grows our baronies for the coming bloodbath. An alliance with her is possible, but only on her terms, and it will cost us everything we can ever create here. If we enter the civil war between Rostland and Issia, only tattered pieces of Varnhold will remain. We will never be free of the victor's power, whoever that may be."