After the archduchess took her seat, all twenty something nobles in the hall sat down as well.
Thanks to the archduchess, Thales had received quite a fair bit of education on the nobility, filled with their unique Northland features. Compared to the knowledge Gilbert taught him in one short month, which was so long ago that they were starting to fade, he was more familiar with Eckstedt's glorious history.
...Such as Dragon Clouds City's day of the state affairs hearing.
It originated ninety years ago by the Archduke of Dragon Clouds City, Nuven the Sixth, who later became the Forty-Third Common-Elected King. He was the grandfather of the late king, Nuven the Seventh, and was a king worth remembering.
He was the one who established the Walton Family's most prosperous period, and was the first of three successive kings from the same family.