17th November 1574
Even after two days, the question that Elia asked me back in the Royal Palace in Krakow still bothered me.
What if my scheme to become the grey eminence of the entire country and the most important backer of the king were to fail?
While the question was fairly simple, the drawbacks of the conclusions that any of its answers would provide were more than worrying. From a lot of problems appearing in terms of further developing my lands and possible taxes that could thwart any attempts at growth, through forcing me to enter the games of political struggles and waste my precious time on anything other than my work or wife, all the way to either being completely ostracised due to my sudden growth or in even worse scenario, the entire country breaking apart in a civil war.
