Restructuring the council could not be completed in a short time. For now, they could only lay down broad eligibility requirements for council members, then hold another election. Everyone agreed that members had to be elves who lived permanently in The Hinterlands. If they had families, their family members also had to live in The Hinterlands, either within Quel'Danil City's jurisdiction or in the Harbor Plain region.
The second requirement was to acknowledge that Quel'Danil belonged to Quel'Thalas. Loyalty to the people of Quel'Thalas was harder to judge, but that was not a problem. They could enshrine it in law. Anyone who violated it could be arrested outright, without any courtesy.
Quel'Danil had always followed the laws of Quel'Thalas, and there was nothing wrong with that. They only needed to amend the sections concerning the king and the Silvermoon Council, replacing them with provisions concerning the interests of the nation and its people.
The third requirement was to have no criminal record and to have made contributions to Quel'Thalas or Quel'Danil. Everyone discussed this at length and drew up a preliminary set of detailed rules. Fortunately, quite a few learned clerics were present. Otherwise, it would have been no easy task.
For instance, Sorens, the old charlatan from Falthrien Academy who was always smiling as he borrowed Yu Lin Bloodhawk's Magic Necklace, offered many useful suggestions. He was now the high priest of the War God Temple.
Finally, the discussion returned to the City Guard.
As for what to do with the City Guard, the officers favored disbanding it and rebuilding it from scratch. The requirements this time would differ from before. Besides loyalty to the nation of Quel'Thalas and the interests of its people, recruits would have to acknowledge that Quel'Danil was a sacred, indivisible part of Quel'Thalas before