This was Alpheo's first time where he had met a person who seemed to truly embody the spirit of decorum.
Most of the men Alpheo had dealt with had always seemed to put themselves on high guard against the peasant who made himself prince, who also carried the well-earned moniker of killing nobles on certain occasions.
This reputation,luckily, was not as bad as it could have normally been, considering that the nobles he had executed were either proven traitors to the crown or were instead butchered by his subordinates during the heat of battle....as was the unfortunate case of Aracina.
So, in a certain sense, his reputation was as white as a peasant-made ruler's could be. Unfortunately, the many wars he had led and won, along with the breakneck expansion of his state, meant that his diplomatic standing would forever be tainted, even ten years along the run.
He would probably have to work on that urgently.
