The first days under the reign of the new emporer did not start well. Still some eastern raiders were plagueing the Italian citizens and the reports given to Florian de Fecamp showed trouble.

"What are those people doing? Is anyone thinking we are just giving proposals?" These phrases were some of the calm and friendly words getting out the mouth of the imperial highness.

Time goes by and he was discussing and answering more requests than he ever could have dreamed of. Finally he gets the knowledge a wise ruler needs to find. "Scribe", he barked create some notes to our electors.

QUOTE:
Dear kings and electors,

one of the first things which came to my attention is the current disorder in our military situation. To allow all of you to benefit from our most experienced warrior I will appoint Alrik vom Greifenstein as field marshall of our forces. In times of war any elector has to follow his order and can start discussing afterwards. The only one that can overrule him is the emporer itself. To me he has to justify his deeds.

Florian de Fecamp,
Grand Duke of Burgundy
Emporer of the SRI