Pioneers of the futures(1)

At just twenty-two winters, Aron was hardly a seasoned diplomat. His experience in statecraft was limited to a handful of fruitless missions to the Principality of Oizen—exercises in formality rather than actual negotiations. Not because he lacked skill, but because the power dynamic had been entirely lopsided, with Yarzat becoming too weak to hold its own.

A deal between nations is only upheld after all when both sides wield comparable strength, either to match each other, or enough to make war a costly affair .