Zonasa really wasn't after Alanurs and really didn't want a duchy, persay.
Heh . . . yeah, I seem to recall Erandi saying pretty strongly that Alanurs wasn't a target . . . David just decided "screw that, Alanurs is where we can hurt Soliferium most, I'm going to sack it while we build strength to attack Masahakon." The fact that we got it in the long run was completely unplanned, even David hadn't planned to really do more than sack it . . . I figured it would go rogue shortly after us taking it, and didn't care (heck, I mostly just started a TO in order to lower the city's stats, I didn't even care or know if it would get TO'd).
I think I've taken other regions the same way, actually -- Haul comes to mind.
And it should be mentioned that it was really
Erandi that wanted Soliferium to just be reduced in size . . . other people in Zonasa had different goals. David wanted to burn Soliferium to the ground, and the fact that he wasn't given enough freedom to protect what he saw as Zonasa's interests led to him resigning as general.
