1. You hold three regions, we asked for 3,000 gold. Sounds fair.
2. How again is anything you just said supposed to convince us peace is a good idea?
"If I don't burn you to the ground soon, my people will revolt against me."
Sounds like you're dangerous neighbors, and we shouldn't be doing anything to ease up on you.
I am not sure how you convinced yourself that it's a case of I have to burn you down, or Mendicant gets deposed, but whatever. It's a case of Mendicant gets peace, or he burns you down, or he gets kicked out and is replaced by some one who will. Mendicant wants the former, which is preferable to getting kicked out or extensive warfare over the coming months against the Veinsormoot, which would be the end result of him being deposed anyway. As for dangerous neighbours, well that's a fascinating outlook but somewhat contradicted by the like five attempts at peace Mendicant's made, his refusal to wage war and his refusal to have both D'Hara and Barca taken down when they were starving and held maybe five regions between them. Yeah that's pretty dangerous, it's almost like Aurvandil genuinely doesn't want to fight you or destroy you.
You want the three regions? Try having Barca ask for them, Mendicant might be more inclined to listen. Demanding gold just to open peace talks is a sure fire way to kill any chance of peace stone dead.
