Noble Negotiations (Part-5)
Shordar (Baron) Prantik had always hated the experience of it being always the upper nobles sucking off the lower ones, without ever giving anything back to their less ones.
Sure the upper nobles would not tax them per se.
But every year they would also be expected to give expensive gifts to their superiors in the form of gold, fine fabric, jewelry, and women, on occasions like weddings, birthdays, and a million other religious celebrations.
The lesser nobles would also be tasked with organizing various extravagant entertainment such as lavish feasts, balls and hunting games during various times of the year, all done so that the nobles would not be bored in their homes.
After all, what else are the nobles gonna do all day?
Work?
Of course, it went without saying that all the expenses came out of the lesser nobles' own pockets.
And that was not the worst of it.