[quote=@Genni] [color=gold][b]Carmella de Laurensia:[/b] "Now there's a man who's never heard of poison gas or explosives."[/color] Does the province hold strategic value, or are the population just holding the worthless ground for the sake of tradition? [/quote] He is a old school kind of thinker, and will have to deal with a huge learning curve in the days to come. Vrenal controls most of the passes through the mountains, and numerous forts to keep the savages on the otherside at bay. Tradition does play a part in it as well though.