[@Belle] Hm, interesting.  You should speak with [@TemplarKnight07] about details -- he currently has it listed that Dagon attacked a guest, and that's why he's imprisoned.  Then again, if he's only been her knight for 20-50 years and imprisoned for the rest, she might not value him that highly -- it's not very long, among the fey.  Of course, that's assuming that [@Prince of Seraphs] has the correct figure for when Arys and Feoras had their falling out -- about 100 years into her reign.  You didn't state anything specific, but the way you proposed, the longer they lasted, the longer Dagon was her knight, and the longer he had to prove his complete loyalty.

However, Belle, if the gremlins use iron weapons to defend her, that assumes that there's enough iron to arm most of them and supply whoever she trades it to, if any.  Is Winter the only source of iron, or just has the best sources?  If it's the only one...jeez that's a serious advantage, and weighs a lot of things heavily in Winter's favor, if there ever /is/ a war.  Just let the [s]goblins[/s] gremlins loose!  It also means that letting Falk ally with Arys is an even bigger risk, considering his general scheming.  Also it assumes that she can tolerate being in the same place as said iron while they're using it, unless you mean iron-flecked blades -- that actually makes more more sense, so I'm guessing I misunderstood.  It's also interesting to consider how the gremlins handle changes in rulers, or in-court quarrels over succession.  Not to mention one wonders why (if Winter /was/ the main source of iron) they ever gave any of it away.  Though I suppose other courts could have refused to trade unless they were given iron...yay intrigue.

It's interesting that Summer and Winter never had a true war, and not the impression I got from [@LadyRunic]'s opening pieces.  I know I referenced fighting between the two in one of my posts, going off her statement that there have been skirmishes and only for the moot has an uneasy truce been declared, as well as a few other statements I'd need to reread to locate.  I might need to change some things in the way I've been thinking and planning, if that's how we're playing it.  *toys with new ideas*