[ In his brief time here, Yuri has quickly formed the impression that the pressure is on to choose a camp. He's already been dragged here from amidst one war and hardly fancies another. In some ways, it would be significantly worse with only two factions going up against each other, vying for power as they presently are.

The lot of those like them, strangers to this place, must seem like simple ballista fodder. Yuri can see that possibility all too clearly, ruthless as he knows those driven to seize power can be. For now, though, the moves to be made are limited. ]

I'd agree that it seems the way of it, from what I've gathered. [ The locals are quite vocal on some subjects, tight-lipped on others. Expectations are clear, as is a certain simmering tension. So he thinks, anyhow, as he folds his arms across his chest and shifts his weight. ] But is that to say you can't help people without hitching your cart to one or the other?

[ Neutral camps could suffer the least or most, entirely owed to how those actually in conflict went about it... While Yuri may be a sellsword, he doesn't fancy pledging to some enigmatic leader he knows nothing of based on a premise he finds too outlandish to believe outright. ]