Well, they could. But that would only provoke Aurvandil further in war, I mean that would just be the height of cowardly surrendering. We would have to fight for the honour of the nobles they unjustly banned in our name. Aurvandil has respect for nobles who will fight us, but not for nobles who would ban members of their realm for daring to in some sort of slimy obsequious begging for mercy.
Just so we're clear:
Casus belli: We're gonna do whatever we want.
