Gethrenia was known as the ‘kingmaker’ when it came to higher tier politics in the High Kingdom, sometimes literally when it came down to crises of inheritance. It was always known for patient kings who stayed out of a political Gerlick game until it reached a point where its intervention could be definitive, be it nothing more than the High King trying to enact kingdom wide legislation, capitalizing on the opportunity to be the primary entry into Griffonia from Equestria for that huge train she had seen pass through Skymount from time to time, or indeed, backing the High King in whatever endeavour that had gotten up everygriffon’s gizzard that week. She had expected a viper’s nest of intrigue. Instead, Gerhart’s court reflected the griffon himself: forthright, boisterous, and larger than life. That was not to say the griffons there were unintelligent brutes -- just less cynical than most.