Alexander and Metztil managed to agree upon the preliminary points of the deal on the very first day of the negotiations.
However even though they managed to shake hands then, it still took the next two days to hash out the many small kinks and faults.
As they say, the devil is in the details.
The problem here largely came in the form of land distribution, which was by its very nature a very messy thing.
So a large part of the next two days was filled with the Helvati delegation haggling with Alexander to get him to promise their people land in those areas best known for their good farmland while the various lords ruling them made the most creative of excuses, trying their best to dodge this poisonous bite.
Nobody wanted to give an inch more and nobody wanted to get an inch less.
And Alexander soon found that dividing the land absolutely fairly was the very definition of the word- impossible.
