Why are those of any concern to Auvrandil? Why do you care?
I'm glad you asked, because that is quite important.
Aurvandil considered Barca to be its closest friend, we weren't allies, but Aurvandil keeps its relations entirely professional and practices relative isolationism. So when this conflict in Barca spills over into Aurvandil, our first reaction is "We don't want to deal with this crap", but then we get fairly convincing stories from multiple lords in Barca attesting to tyranny and corruption, to which they can support it with transcripts of letters, the list of bounties placed on their head, so then Aurvandil says that it will listen to both sides of the story before we do anything. Aurvandil was trying to take the more honourable path in the fate of these regions, than the most politically expedient one. It would be dishonourable and even hypocritical for Aurvandil to be seen as publicly supporting a Republican tyranny, such as what we had to deal with in Madina, and if its the case, how are the lords defecting from Barca any different to the lords who founded Aurvandil to escape Republican Tyranny?
Aurvandil couldn't by its honour or morals return tens of thousands of peasants, near 40,000 square miles of territory back under what could very well be a tyranny.
With Barca on the northern borders, Aurvandil could not stand by and allow another tyrannical Republic to grow out of hand on our very borders, it would be a bad investment, and in the end if it came to pass, Aurvandil would have to send a military expedition to put an end to it. So we decided, the honourable thing to do would be to hand back the lands, but only the condition that we see the impetus for change, and a degree of sincerity in the Barca Republic to assure us, that whilst they had been left astray, they had every intention of returning to being a Republic of benevolence, such as what we cite D'Hara as being. Which is why my demands were so minimal and vague, it's a case of "Do something, anything to change the course you're heading down, and it will convince me Aurvandil can still rely upon Barca to be a stable, honourable and free realm".
