Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-25020300-20150406021940/@comment-25101508-20150417221023

Lord High Chancellor Rufio Marcellus and the High Magistrates sat in their high seats before the Assembly and the Elder Council and the citizens who have come to speak before the three branches.

"I was under the impression the impression that the Imperials, despite their lack of any real power anymore, have better equipment than the Stormcloaks. If half our army is using iron daggers, three quarters of the Stormcloak army has iron daggers," spoke one of the Elder Councilors.

"The College of Winterhold is not open with its knowledge of the arcane and the Stormcloaks have little control over them. We can't get any of those... Spells from the College," said one of the High Magistrates.

Rufio considered the options long and hard before finally speaking, "If wish to maintain an army of any sort, we must have the food to keep the soldiers alive. Trading for the food in the north is in our best interests."