With this cash injection, the Quel'Danil Council would have ample funds for a considerable time.
The Quel'Danil Council acted quickly. Yu Lin Bloodhawk also had a Gryphon Rider Bodyguard deliver the news to Old Charlatan, who was at Aerie Peak. Whether Old Charlatan ultimately went to war or chose to negotiate a business deal was entirely up to him.
Privately, however, Yu Lin Bloodhawk believed that, judging by Old Charlatan's nasty habit of extorting a hefty sum from him every time they met, the man would certainly abandon his Mage Corps and rush back to The Hinterlands alone to join in plundering Lordaeron's treasury.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk felt that Old Charlatan was greedier than he was, only better at protecting his reputation. Compared with him, Old Charlatan was the real old scoundrel who wanted to play the whore while posing as a saint.
Thus, Yu Lin Bloodhawk felt that everyone in the world was a fool and he alone was clever, because only he had seen the despicable character beneath Old Charlatan's respectable exterior.
Unfortunately, Yu Lin Bloodhawk also thought himself the unluckiest, because Old Charlatan only ever came to extort money from him. A large portion of the money he had worked himself to the bone earning as an unscrupulous merchant had been squeezed out of him by Old Charlatan.
And yet... the fellow had such a good reputation. Even Alleria trusted him so much that whenever he asked for money, she handed it over without a thought for her husband's feelings.
And what about him? *Sigh... even talking about it brings tears to my eyes. Even a good friend and brother like Mez'dra, someone I've been through life and death with, still thinks I'm an unscrupulous merchant after all that explaining. Some people really do have all the