Thank you for that. Unfortunately, several of my fellow Northern wizards don't care at all for Tatara. I was concerned the information might not reach him from a thorough source.

[He looks both relieved that this was not the case, and extremely tired at having to say as much in the first place. Why couldn't they work together on something so basic...?]

The funding might explain why that man was at the ball despite his grevious injuries, then. If it takes precedence in the country, they would want appropriate representatives of the field involved.

I can't speak for what Robin may have learned, but there was some definite confusion as to why certain Northern delegates had been picked, as well as some apparent tensions between some areas of the North and the royal family located in Central. A great deal of it was heresay, so I won't go into detail, but it had the representative I spoke to on edge for speaking his mind plainly. I had to remove him from the ball entirely to coax an answer from him.

Outside of that, though, everything else I learned was specific to the more remote regions of North and their worries, not to anything else.