hmm, to fight 4 and have peace with 1 or have peace with 4 and fight 1......
I say Fronen took the possible worst option for them. Fronen VS Melhed 1 on 1, my gold would be on Fronen.
Why the hell would we hand you four frigging Duchies on a silver platter just to win the dubious opportunity to fight Melhed to the death one on one to -MAYBE - get one back? You didn't even offer to help us. and I'm considerably less confident than you are. Vur Hagin isn't a rich city, and in any case Melhed has three of them, all bigger. They would have a huge economic advantage.
The terms the North is asking are excessive and ridiculous, and you cannot possibly be surprised that the Senate would oppose them. For starters, you're asking us for five regions, three of them cities. That's five Senators opposed right there, three of whom are Dukes with a fair amount of influence, plus some more who are just plain outraged that you're demanding that we turn over four fifths of the realm for basically nothing.
Edit: Consider letting us keep Wudenkin, and then we'll talk.
