Pre-Battle Preparations
The names, dates, and signatures all left the Queen mother without any doubt that these were no forgery.
And as she read and re-read the papers, she grew increasingly incensed not only at the nobles but that Alexander had killed them.
"If you knew about all these, why did you not capture them? We could have gotten so much from them!" She asked with clenched teeth.
What use was blackmail if there was no person to blackmail with?
"....Like I said, a sudden fire killed them," Alexander played that same broken record, much to the royal lady's exasperation, before backtracking to his previous question,
"Your Highness, you haven't answered my inquiry, 'Are all or even many nobles like that?' I'm curious to know how I should behave in the future."
Alexander's future policies would very much depend on the answer.