The rumors from his picks for the competition would flow like wine - some speculating that he was deliberately insulting Brevoy, by using two of their disgraced nobles as his competitors, while others thought that he was little more than a Brevic puppet, a frontier land where their undesirables were shipped, while others wondered if his kingdom was just a front for Brevoy to compete, without losing face from failure - and many more. Still, there was no objection to his entrants, and he'd receive an invitation to meet with King Irovetti that evening, and to bring 'one of his fine women' along with him.