Legacy magic
"Find out everything that goes on there, who are the important people? What are their strengths and weaknesses? their relationships with each other, their wants and needs, everything. Do you understand what I'm talking about?"
"that's too much. I need more money to do something like this. It will be very hard to spy on nobles without more money." Redthorn said.
Esdras thought that it was reasonable so he gave him a few gold coins.
After all, he couldn't just show up there and use brute force to take everything and punish the people he didn't like. This was a place of law, and he wasn't strong enough to ignore the laws of the tower.
Besides, he wanted to know what was really happening there and what made his uncle so desperate to kill him so irrationally. He wanted to know who his allies were and what was his uncle's intention are.
It was easy to blame his uncle, but he had long since noticed several inconsistencies in this theory.