I disagree with the whole premise that Yelm-worshipping aristocrats are unwilling to use all the resources at their command to wipe out the unjust, impure barbarians that threaten True Justice. If some half-nomad barbarian upstart governing Rinliddi (only half-nomad barbarians call it First Blessed) threatens the just primacy of the House Assiday of Raibanth by manouevering to have some barbarian mercenary given imperial command in the south - bloody right I'm going to use every weapon at my disposal to prevent this obvious attempt to bring about the reign of Kazkurtum and the fall of the Empire!
Personally, I suspect that the old Dara Happan noble houses are amongst the most vicious Dart War Competitors. Arrogant, dangerously self-righteous and supremely ambitious, they think nothing of destroying half-caste barbarians that block their own advancement.
Jeff
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