The audience upon arrival was for lack of a better word abysmal.
The visiting monarch was shunned by those thought to be his ally, alongside their own Princess.
Many in the palace were on the side of their King believing they needed to take a tough stance against this rising power to put them in their place and secure their own place in this new world since Lunan their former overlord had fallen.
The choices available were not grand.
They could bend the knee to Julius the conqueror of their former overlord, resist and be destroyed or buy for time until someone else came along and dealt with Julius.
None of these options were at all appealing to the Kingdom of Roserun
It's lands had been ravaged, it's people murdered or displaced, and now exploited by their nobility.