Just when Aaron is thinking about where to recruit people to help him deal with the new territory, at least he can't always do things like patrolling and collecting taxes himself, right?
A letter sent by Lordaeron's messenger was delivered to him. This letter came from Terenas. The old king praised Aaron in the tone of his elders, and Notify Aaron that the administrative officer he personally selected is already on the way and should arrive at Covenant City soon. I hope Aaron and the other party can get along happily by then.
This is also an agreement reached between Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas. Lordaeron cultivates Paladin for Quel'Thalas. Correspondingly, The administrative officer of Covenant City is appointed by Lordaeron. However, the term of this administrative officer is only ten years. After ten years, Quel'Thalas will select someone to fill this position.
It can also be seen from this that the identity of the lord Aaron lacks real power. Even the administrative officer cannot appoint him personally. However, when Covenant City was first built, Aaron did not mind being appointed by Lordaeron came to appoint a government affairs officer. After all, he had no acquaintances in Eastern Kingdoms who were good at government affairs and could be recruited to work for him. It would not be a bad thing to have an experienced official to assist him in the beginning.
However, Aaron has also decided in his heart that he will definitely take the power of personnel appointment and dismissal in the territory into his own hands in the future. If this key power is given to others, it is difficult to say who will have the final say in Covenant City in the future. Aaron does not want to be used as a puppet.
However, Terenas did not mention the specific identity of the administrative officer in the letter. He only gave Aaron a sign, indicating that the person coming was the person holding this sign. When the time comes, Aaron only needs to recognize this sign.
Looking at the hand-drawn emblem on the letter paper by an unknown person, Aaron scratched his head. He believed that the person sent by Terenas must be from a well-known family in Lordaeron. However, Aaron didn't recognize any other emblem except Lordaeron's flag. How could he know who this emblem came from?
In order to avoid any unpleasantness caused by not knowing the person when the administrative officer arrived, Aaron took this emblem and went to find someone to ask about the meaning behind it.
Not to mention, Aaron actually found someone who recognized this emblem, and that was Vereesa.
As a Farstriders who needs to deal with humans frequently, familiarity with the emblems of various human noble families can only be said to be a basic course, so Vereesa recognized it just at a glance. He looked at Aaron with a strange expression and said, "This is the logo of the Barov Family of Alterac. Don't you actually recognize it?"
Why should I know it? Aaron scratched his head, but when he thought of the Barov Family's information, he immediately understood that it was really strange that he didn't recognize the Barov Family logo - because the hometown Aaron has always claimed is the territory that belongs to the Barov Family, and there is no reason for him not to recognize this logo.
"This question is very complicated to explain. To put it simply, although I say I am from Hillsbrad Foothills, in fact I haven't stayed there for long." Aaron spread his hands, then looked down at the coat of arms of the Barov Family, with a smile on his face, "Barov Family, that's really interesting."
Speaking of the Barov Family, we must talk about the monstrous power of this family. Although Barov Family is only a noble family of Alterac that can be counted backwards among the Alliance, this is by no means a reason to underestimate Barov Family.
Before Second War, Barov Family was a wealthy family that controlled the vast land east of the Alterac Mountains. The vast land including Brill, Tarren Mill, Southshore and other towns were their family's fiefdom.
Barov Family's wealth is so great that it can be compared with the Alterac royal family. Aaron guesses that the poor Alterac royal family may not be as rich as Barov Family.
Unfortunately, the outbreak of the second war completely changed the fate of this family. First, he was afraid that King Trunk Aiden would surrender to Orcs on the condition that the Orcs army would not harass his territory, so he released the Orcs army under Orgrim from his own country. This directly led to Lordaeron being surrounded. If the Alliance army had not returned in time, I am afraid Lordaeron would have been in danger.
In this war, Barov Family also stood on the opposite side of the Alliance. They continued to incite peasant riots in the Alliance-controlled areas. As a result, the Alliance army in the Hillsbrad Foothills area had to focus on counterinsurgency and could not support the Alliance navy fighting in the south.
Soon, Kingdom of Alterac's betrayal of the Alliance aroused the anger of Dalaran and Stromgarde. The two countries quickly and decisively sent out troops, completely occupied Kingdom of Alterac, and deposed King Aiden.
The fate of the Barov Family is naturally not much better.
After the war came to an end, the freed-up Lordaeron king Terenas deprived Barov Family of his right to rule over Brill, Tarren Mill and Southshore.
What Terenas did was actually a bit overstepping his authority, but King Aiden was deposed due to public outrage, but the new King Alterac could not decide for a long time, so Terenas implemented this judgment as the leader of the Alliance, leaving only Caer Darrow Island, the once glorious Barov Family, hanging alone in the center of Lake Caer Darrow.
You can imagine how much this family hates Terenas. According to the "history" in the game, in order to avenge Lordaeron for revenge on the Alliance, this family did not hesitate to dedicate the last piece of their territory to Kel'Thuzad. Cult of the Damned organized by E, as a result, the patriarch was turned into a dead soul, and the patriarch's wife became a psychic affiliated with Scourge. Their children either died at home, or were forced to live in exile, barely surviving.
However, judging from the fact that Terenas can now mobilize people from the Barov Family to serve as Covenant City's administrative officer, perhaps he has reached some degree of reconciliation with this family.
However, considering the various incidents that this family will do in the future, Aaron feels that it is necessary to be more vigilant about this new administrative officer, lest Covenant City become a ghost town in the future. However, considering that Covenant City is training Paladin Troop, this possibility should be unlikely, but Aaron also felt that it was necessary to be more careful with the political officer. It was not until the political officer's carriage arrived at the Covenant City gate that Aaron vaguely realized that something was not quite right...
The person who came was not Alex Barov, the patriarch of the Barov Family, but a young woman who looked not much older than Aaron - the eldest daughter of the Barov Family, Illucia·Barov.