Telling him to address you as "Lord [Region Name]" when you signed your letter with your name (A), is conflicting. If someone signs their letter, you should reflect that signature in your reply.
This is just silly. If we imagine a king desiring to be addressed as "Your Highness", he hardly signs his letters as "Our/My Highness". Since this happened in Dwilight (who would have guessed?), please take a look at the wiki:
http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Serious_Medieval_Atmosphereand
http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/RP_Primer...specifically part 4, the forms of address.
So, I did not conjure this odd preference out of thin air. I read the page and thought it looked nice so I built my character pretty much around an idea of a stiff traditionalist who values form above content. Of course the wiki is not the law, but the concept presented there offers interesting ideas and opportunities. It is not at all unreasonable, in this context, for my character to expect a lower ranking noble to follow a certain procedure, especially when thus instructed. Of course it can be ignored, but not without a consequence. So we have a traditionalist and a revolutionist on a collision course - big deal. It's as classic as it can get in wars of culture throughout the history. It's just one of the many opportunities for IC conflict.
The other noble probably gains a lordship soon and evens the odds, and perhaps even outranks my little earl in some time. That too is but more wood to the campfire to tell more stories.
