The way the system is designed, though, it doesn't feel like you are picking a lord at all. Rather, it feels like you are just looking at a real estate market for free lots, and the lord feels like a modern landlord to which you became a tenant he can evict at will and which you can dump at will.
again, that's left to the players. Under the current system, half the time the lord just sends an Oath link without saying anything
