Benefit of the Doubt

5th of June, 926

Dobrovít of Bukovec, the Margrave's Notary, paces Svetlovor's grand Hall of Knowledge. A list long enough to span half the room trails behind him, rising from the floor to rest atop the back of his Lokaj, Recognition. Pleas for aid of varying intensity and importance dot the paper, noted dutifully during numerous court hearings. Lost cattle, distraught parents, bandit forts, neighbourly disputes, all manner of folk have come to petition Záviš for his men's assistance.

"Perhaps," the creature adjust a particularly unstable loop of paper threatening to spill over its eyes, "you ought to swallow your stubborn pride, and request aid."

And Request Aid He Did.