Outside Winter City...
I finally reached the Winter City and joined the queue to enter the city. Everyone who wants to enter the city has to go through the verification process or else there will be no entry. This was so that criminals wouldn't enter the city using fake credentials.
Even though I am the son of the Viscount, I still had to go through the verification process. Of course, there are different queues for different categories of people.
The longest queue belonged to the commoners and they had multiple checkpoints to make it easy and not waste time. Merchants have a different checkpoint because, unlike others, there would be caravans and it would be a disturbance for everyone.
The nobles however have the shortest queue, as they have their own entry point and they were given priority. No matter the age, the people in power wouldn't waste their time waiting in a queue that would take a long time.