Ah, yes, that would make such an alliance even more important. With any luck, the assistance your kingdom offers now will repay that initial debt, so to speak. After all, while you need their help, they must in turn depend on yours.

[It feels strange to talk of debts repaid, when Baron might never repay its own. When Baron keeps adding more to its balance, unwillingly.]

Fighting one's sibling is a terribly painful act. For him to do so willingly, due to a quirk of the blood neither of them chose... Yet being forcibly turned into a monster is a terrible fate, one for which I've seen the effects. I'd not wish it upon even my worst enemy.