Maybe Brag Mode is best for this trade nonsense.
It's a valid concern of the regular noble but we are different, we are Viserys Targaryen.
Normal Noble = being beholden in some way to non-Noble merchants and that influence is not desirable by their Peers or their Lords. General conflicts of interest.
Viserys Trade = the opposite for us, we are no longer beholden to wealthy benefactors and future subordinates, we have our own income even without smallfolk to tax (in the beginning), our own fleet, our own army, our own land (outside the Crownlands). Also we're King, there is no conflict of interest, merely our interest.
Normal Noble = takes time away from consideration of the realm and subjects. It's not worth their time to know these things.
Viserys = More learned than any Maester in literally everything already.
Normal Noble= trade requires compromising with those below your station. At times resulting in poor bedfellows.
Viserys = First, everyone is below our station. Second we are never required compromise because we hold pretty much all the cards and it shows, our "compromises" are mostly to bring people into the fold and keep them there.
Normal Noble = Personal prosperity v Prosperity of the realm.
Viserys = Realm therefore Personal Prosperity = Prosperity of the realm.
In general this is true of anytime we break the mold. Nobles delegate to experts and avoid showing their lack of expertise.
We are more expert than just about anyone that could be delegated to.
More deadly than the entire Kingsguard.
We spin webs as well as any spider (we renegotiated the terms of loan to the Iron Throne without even sitting on it, we are regulating the finance of our Usurper, I think this was glossed over by many)
Etc.
Which is as BS as the dozen other times she's stolen credit for Viserys' genius.
I continue to be salty at people who craft votes with "have Lya come up with X".
We are Viserys' mind, and he is perfectly capable of coming up with things and telling people to do the legwork.
You know, King shit.
