King spent the evening with the Kingdom Building Guidebook open on his interface.
The document was thorough, organized, practical, specific about the steps the system expected and the sequence in which they would yield results. King moved through it, cross-referencing the NPC faction information against his memory of the region from his playthroughs.
Jean-Louis Thibodeau III sat at the center of his current goal. King Jean-Louis, ruler of Belfort, one of the seven great kings the game had distributed across its regions as anchoring figures, and possible aids, depending on your building type.
In every playthrough where King had bothered to engage the Belfort questline, Jean-Louis had proven to be one of the most structurally useful NPC in Veadura's entire roster, cooperative, genuinely powerful as an ally, and in possession of HeavenSplit Twinhandler, the weapon he had carried and used for decades before age had taken the edge off his fighting years.
