The common people of Nahab have become used to freedoms unheard of elsewhere in Nemedia. The lack of complete lordship over Nahab forced the local nobility to treat the bourgeois and craftsmen leniently. This makes them more prone to evade taxes and plot among themselves, if brute force is used against them. People outside the city walls have, on the other hand, been used as tools and rewards in the petty plotting of the local nobility. Selcides was their only defence against the nobility and his murder left a current of anger which will take years to fade away.