If you hadn't said the first thing I would have agreed with you wholeheartedly.

[ Although to be perfectly honest, work would probably be less intimidating as long as it didn't come with pressure or expectation. That's really where her problem with it lay.

At the sound of his laughter how can she not smile? Or at the very least feel like creeping loneliness she had felt in the pit of her stomach shrink that much more? ]

I've never heard of a royal title being awarded for work they've done.

[ In Fodlan, most title came by way of birthright or passing it onto someone. It feels a little silly to her that it's just given to someone who hasn't technically proven themselves of anything - but that's just her silly little opinion. Propping her elbow up on the bar she leans her hand into her cheek. ]

It must have been really important work.