"If you take these… Then that should be of the worth of three hundred golds," he told Vol, offering him several sacks worth of treasures. "I would give you more… But this gold is not merely for my own personal spending, as much as the townspeople would love to believe. There is much to pay for, and we've already lost a quarter of our treasury…"
He'd made those excuses whilst Vol had merely been struggling to grab all the different sacks at once. It wasn't just that they were heavy, it was that there were so many of them. Nolan had been given the exact same amount as Vol. At first, the Lord had been prepared to offer Nolan more, but Nolan had argued that Vol had played just as significant a role as he – if not more so.