"So, Young Master Agansa, did you investigate the Hobarton Family's origins?"
Knight Amanda pressed on.
"Isn't the Hobarton Family just an earldom in Loran City? What else is there to know?"
Agansa had no answer.
Clearly, Agansa had done his homework—but only half of it.
"The full noble name of the Hobarton Family is Loran Hobarton. They're a branch of the Loran Family. And I presume you know which family the Loran Family branched off from, Young Master."
Knight Amanda filled in what Agansa hadn't bothered to investigate.
Every noble family in the Gewalt Federation with a long history had powerful connections.
After generations of inheritance, members of a great family often broke away from its distant branches to establish new families.
The Hobarton Family was one such branch, descended from the Marquis Loran family that ruled Loran City.
And the Marquis Loran family, in turn, was a branch of an even more prominent noble family.
Medivh had powerful connections. If Kurd City had been so easy to claim, Agansa wouldn't have been the one to get it.
Even within his own family, the best opportunities were sure to go to the heirs higher in the line of succession.
Why had Agansa come to Kurd? Because the vassal forces in Pioneer Territory had given the higher-ranked position to his older brother. Unwilling to accept it, he had come to the Odyssey Region to build a Pioneer team of his own.
But whatever his connections, the larger movement to reclaim the Odyssey Region wouldn't allow this.
If you wanted your people to fight for you, you had to let them see the rewards.
Kurd was an example, meant to inspire the great families to organize their forces and encourage large Mercenary Groups hoping to rise in status to join the campaign.