Sometimes it’s harder to hold on to power than to seize it. Broad territories fought for and won, area of influence significantly widened, but those external strengths don’t allow you to exist peacefully and develop. Soon enough the ones who climb to the top in the country will decide to take those rich holdings for themselves.
To survive, maintain your lands, and to protect the people loyal to you, you have to put some work in. You’ll have to hide, lie, kill, pit various forces and individual mages against one another, spark wars…
Maybe it’s better to stay in your castle and hope fate goes easy on you?! Is what you’ve built really worth all those deaths and your bloodstained hands?
No! I won’t let what I’ve created be destroyed! I’m ready to learn the Price of Power…