"Careful, young friend. The walls have ears, and our esteemed knight captain is not known to take insults lightly," the innkeeper warns. "Probably everyone in the city has a few stories to tell about him - he is looking to reestablish the old feudal traditions. Nobility and knights - as if they were distinct - the only people to carry swords, the lord of a fief as supreme judge, with the commoners living on his land beholden to him, that sort of thing. The problem is, the traditions of Solamnia would support him - it is even odds that if he can enforce a given tradition around here, the Council would accept that as evidence it has not passed out of use and is enforceable akin to a law... and as a nation, we have a long memory."