I haven't read PotS in a while. Why can't the Dominion Jewel be used again?
Definitely Roald is going to inherit a kingdom with a lot of simmering tension beneath the surface. Jon (and apparently also his dear grandpa Jasson) deals with unreliable nobles by impoverishing their families (and therefore presumably also their fiefs), which may be effective in the short run but is going to create a lot of simmering anti-Conte anger.
And he gives almost all the plum jobs to his knight school friends, which all the other nobles have to hate. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the conservative nobles plot a coup.
no subject
Definitely Roald is going to inherit a kingdom with a lot of simmering tension beneath the surface. Jon (and apparently also his dear grandpa Jasson) deals with unreliable nobles by impoverishing their families (and therefore presumably also their fiefs), which may be effective in the short run but is going to create a lot of simmering anti-Conte anger.
And he gives almost all the plum jobs to his knight school friends, which all the other nobles have to hate. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the conservative nobles plot a coup.