He sighed and brought the candle closer and another blank parchment. He needed to reconcile with Goldtooth and quickly. If only the old bastard would answer him, they could avoid a needless, baseless catastrophe emerging over some heated words! Gethrenia likely couldn’t stand in a straight war with Firthengart. It wasn’t the most populous kingdom, but they had more griffonpower than he had, and an inter-griffon war between two kingdoms on borders with Equestria would just invite some opportunistic nobles to ‘secure their interests’ and All-Maker knows where that would end up.