“You need troops for that. You need a bureaucracy to collect the taxes, to keep the resources flowing. You need organizations to make the subjugated populace do what you want. And in that department, he’s not invincible. Whoever this Storm King is, he isn’t one of the ancient Ringbuilders coming to rule the survivors out on the surface. If he was, he wouldn’t arm his soldiers with pony sticks and string. He wouldn’t need to raid us for armor and weapons.”