The war was over. Next came the cleanup of the battlefield and the division of the spoils.
According to the earlier agreement, the bones beneath the Scare-Claw Tribe's territory belonged to the Wrynn Family. The Skeleton Archaeology Team would help collect the bodies and dispose of the looted Werewolf corpses.
The City-State Allied Forces didn't care about ancient bones, but they couldn't let the Skeletons collect the bodies of the human soldiers who had died in this war. That would break the soldiers' spirits.
Medivh knew where to draw the line. He had never made taking away the bodies of human soldiers part of the deal.
Each family had people assigned to collect its soldiers' bodies and return them to the family cemetery for burial together.
Ensuring that warriors died with honor had always been one of the nobles' favored ways to win people's hearts.
Next, the nobles would hold memorial services in the cemeteries to honor the fallen. At the services, they would award medals to soldiers who had distinguished themselves in battle, grant them the Knight Breathing Technique, or reward them with fiefs to pass down through the generations.
Building a career and earning glory was the promise the nobles dangled before their subjects—the path by which ordinary people could rise through the ranks.
As long as they fought bravely on the battlefield and survived the test of blood and fire, they could receive extra resources and embark on the path of knighthood.
Nobles and their vassals lay at the heart of the knightly tradition. Since ancient times, the nobility had monopolized that tradition, making it a cornerstone of the inheritance of human civilization.
The human mages' tradition, meanwhile, had been built on the foundation created by the knightly tradition.
Without the vast population sustained by the knightly