The Grand Duke had unusually little interest in any territory outside Breisburg. He'd delegated everything to the Administrative Minister, and the prevailing theory was that he'd deliberately turned a blind eye in order to flush these people out.
In any case, the Administrative Minister was a hardline royalist, and given his disposition of loyalty (neutral), the news that someone had insulted the crown prince—never mind some upstart like me—must have set his blood boiling.
"Your Grace! They committed the appalling act of calling His Highness the Crown Prince a bastard. This threatens the legitimacy of Altringen itself and could provide grounds for rebellion. It is a most dangerous act of treason!"
What my father-in-law feared most was that this incident could ignite and spread into civil war within the duchy. From that standpoint, Viscount Dumarck's incitement was serious enough to be treated as treason.
