[And they're almost done with their war, so... hopefully Voltron can defeat the Galra, and Fodlan will have had plenty of time to recover.

The nitty gritty of systems of power in fantasy novels are never... really pleasant anyway. Lance is just getting a first hand account about this one.]

It's... a bit of both, I think. I can't deny that the power that comes with it is... useful, to say the least, and growing up I didn't want for anything, but... [Well. He kind of wanted Miklan to love him, but he doesn't think about that for Reasons.] It's hard to tell if people are nice to me because I have a crest or because they actually like me, you know? Especially since a quick way into the nobility is to have some idiot noble boy's crest baby.