Recaps

Su Qin took control of Gulltown, built its administration and forces, and established House Hercules while using his system to strengthen the territory. After visiting Runestone and surviving a clash with mountain clansmen, he returned to Gulltown to organize refugees and expand the town as the rainy season began.

• Su Qin gained the Hercules talent, helped Earl Yaron defeat the conspirators in Gulltown, and accepted the title of knight and Baron of Gulltown.
• Su Qin offered grain to residents, rooted out conspirators, suspended taxes for a year, and began recruiting soldiers and administrators for Gulltown.
• Su Qin organized the territory’s officials, military, intelligence network, and servants, while using system summons to recruit craftsmen and grant skills to loyal followers.
• Su Qin established House Hercules with a yellow dragon sigil and the words “Strive unceasingly for self-improvement!” before visiting Gulltown’s docks and selling medicine to Kuyang.
• Su Qin traveled to Runestone, rescued villagers from mountain clansmen, and vowed to eliminate the clans before attending the burial and welcoming feast there.
• Su Qin defeated every challenger at Runestone, presented his house symbols to Yaron, and received Delia Royce’s banner, gold, and declaration of love.
• Su Qin returned to Gulltown and expanded recruitment, refugee support, intelligence gathering, militia training, and plans for farmland and a large smithy.
• Su Qin housed refugee families, arranged construction and faith screenings, completed the smithy, and monitored the river as the rainy season began and Gull Territory’s population passed 5,000.

Su Qin expanded Gulltown through refugee settlement, farming, new weapons, and tighter control, while Delia’s attempted assassination brought House Royce into conflict with House Wickenden. The arc ended with Su Qin securing his ministers’ loyalty and planning a brothel to keep money circulating in his territory.

• Su Qin inspected Gulltown’s new weapons, expanded the smithies, and defeated a bandit company near Augustus Castle before meeting Delia at Runestone.
• Su Qin and Delia became betrothed, while he funded his officials and developed irrigation plans, refugee farms, and new agricultural towns.
• Su Qin expanded his territory by taking over three keeps, managed a food shortage, and began preparing forces with longbows and horn bows.
• An assassin attacked Delia at Runestone, but her Golden Dragon Necklace blocked the killing blow, prompting House Royce to declare war on House Wickenden.
• Delia visited Gull Territory and saw Su Qin’s unusually productive corn crop, while the harvest supplied Lower Gulltown with months of grain.
• Su Qin promised Aerys II an annual grain supply and pledged loyalty to House Targaryen, while Delia confirmed that he did not want another wife.
• Su Qin bought protective Torch Dragon Pair Pendants for himself and Delia, trained his troops with horn bows, and prepared for future campaigns and expanded corn planting.
• Su Qin sold corn, negotiated taxes and trade, granted redemption payments to local houses, and learned that all his ministers’ loyalty exceeded 90.
• Su Qin planned the Red Gull House to keep money circulating in Gulltown, and Delia offered the Scissors’ help finding women to work there.