[X] While Tyene and Dany go to snoop under the guise of looking after horses, you will try to gain a sense of what drives the lord here, if that could be reconciled with some of your own ideas for the region.
-[X] Ultimately you are willing to tolerate autonomous city-states with the knowledge that they will fall under your direct sphere of influence in essentially all cases barring open warfare or isolationism. Your economic primacy and your military support being essential to remain independent states will render them into protectorates within a generation or two.
-[X] You hope they will willingly form a union with the Imperium but that can manifest itself over time. If this lord can convince many of his rusticating fellows to ally themselves with you for a campaign against Sarnath, with the assurance your attentions will soon fall upon the perfidious Gornath thereafter, you are willing to extend some trust to make it happen.