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Morden:"Congratulations on your ascension to the throne and your impressive ever expanding harem I was shocked when I found out about his sons had risen up against him and your timely intervention to save the sultan it is unfortunate that you could not save his other sons that were all brutally murdered but I was even more surprised by the fact that former sultan had nothing to say about you taking Shalu as your sultana even though he seemed obsessed with her"

Me:"It was because of his grief that he not only abandoned the throne but also idea of coveting Shalu as all of his male children had recently died in such a tragedy it seemed as though he blamed himself feeling responsible for the death of his children the timing of such events is unpredictable it was probably caused by him making unnecessary enemies"

Morden:"What makes you think that?"

Me:"As you no doubt heard Saygin say on the day you valiantly rescued Faysal the former sultan apparently like to dispose of those who had displeased him some of these people were even close relatives of his those that survived or were discovered by others led to those creating factions against the former sultan all because he caused unnecessary trouble leading to others act against him if had just left well enough alone he would not had such a dark fate befall him" I then gave him a pointed look to see if he got the message which was don't fuck with me

After our little chat we sat in silence sipping our whiskey before he had to excuse himself because of some emergency that he could not explain and refused any and all offered forms of aid saying that he could handle it on his own.

With Morden out of the way it was time to get the sacred families in line instead of running free and doing as they saw fit in the sultanate completely unopposed and above the law as it has become a well known fact that my ancestor serpent is ridiculously powerful many of the smaller families have begun to flock to my side but three have taken it upon themselves to denounce me and actively oppose me trying to rally the sacred families to their side currently I am having a meeting with their representatives in order to ease tensions they agreed rather easily to this meeting as I suspect that their true intentions were to extort privileges from an experienced young sultan as they seemed to be an old hand at this because their representatives seemed smug and sure of themselves as most sultans of the past gave in to their demands early on in order to quickly restore peace and resolve the issue which is why the sultan was trying to abolish the sacred families in the first place.