Devaguea would respect the 'claims' to his southern border like he would the claim Galt had on the entire River Kingdoms area; absolutely not at all. There were only a few proper nations in the area called collective the River Kingdoms, Daggermark was a city state, Mivon was only a small collection of feuding cities surrounded by farmland, Sevenarches was just a city, there was a gladiator nation on the western border, and a handful of barely nations along its northern border with Numeria.  Everything else was 'claimed' but not enforced in the slightest.<br/><br/>So instead of worrying about his border, he turned his attention to his cities and their surrounding environments, making them as safe and sufficient as possible, so in a decade (at most), he could start expanding south. Anke, Nyrissa, Amvarean, Yvoirth, and even Fynnyntyss on occasion descended on the diplomats as a collective, and firmly booted Devaguea out the door for the talks. His normal methods of dealing with less than respectful diplomats was not (currently) needed, and his much more politely vicious advisors and companions would take their time culling the foreign diplomats. But civilly.<br/><br/>As for the wedding, he wasn't worried. The gifts for the bride had been picked by the women, he had picked the gifts for the king (an elaborate scroll case made to resemble a red dragon with three scrolls of sending, as well as a restored regiment flag of a Brevoy regiment that had gone missing in the River Kingdoms about forty years back along with a Surtovian scion), and everyone that wanted to go was already making plans. Talia was going in person under an assumed name with Yvoirth. Camilla had already gone back to begin preparing to move her effects back to his lands after the wedding. Maegar Varn and Sarianna Varn were also going, as was Kesten to make contact with several mercenary groups and others that might wish to immigrate south if (rather than when) the wedding went south and Brevoy tried to explode.