Upon hearing Gawain's words, Sir Philip was momentarily stunned, not quite understanding what his leader specifically meant, until Gawain asked him a more precise question: "When the old Cecil territory was still around, how large was your fief?"
"It included two villages in the southwest of the old castle and a farmstead," Sir Philip replied, "…and a mill."
Within the system of the Anzu Kingdom, this was the standard fief of a relatively poor knight, and after the Cecil Clan's decline, only such territories remained for the knights loyal to the family.
Gawain nodded: "You've been with me for some time now, you should be aware that, under the current land distribution system in Cecil, there is no soil for traditional land nobility to survive. Even though the concept of 'fief' still exists, the privileges of land nobility have been greatly compressed."
