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It was to rally the people. Conscripted commoners are forced to fight, not that they want to fight unlike regular soldiers. With a commoner marrying the lord (and subsequently leading an army), the people would see that the threat of the invading army affects them on a personal level, rather than just forced into yet another war where the aristocrats and noble elites sit happily safe back home, while telling their people to go die for another supposedly meaningless war (not unlike what most governments do nowadays, but I digress).
It's not that she wanted to help the nobility. She wanted to be the spearhead for her people, driven by her desire for justice for what Valvert's soldiers did to her village. It's why she joined the army as a regular soldier in the first place, to make a difference with her own hands. Marrying the lord would have spring-boarded her military career (which it did), rising all the way up to the rank of General, giving her far more military power to wield than if she was just a normal lowly soldier.
From Narson's perspective, morale was low when at the time; he had already lost his first wife (Lieze's biological mother) from an unspecified reason, and their invading enemy Valvert is much larger in landmass and had a bigger army. He also didn't want to remarry another woman, but he needed to anyway...for one, to give a young Lieze a much needed mother-figure in her life, and second; in order to provide that symbol of stability...just like how in modern times, people tend to elect politicians who are already married with kids, and view the ones who are single (or divorced) as not being up to the task or unsuitable to lead. It's all about optics. Zirconia acknowledges this, so she agreed to Narson's marriage of convenience offer (basically a politically strategic marriage) where they mutually benefit, without having to actually love (or make love) to one another (hence why she's still a virgin).
Hope that helps.
It was to rally the people. Conscripted commoners are forced to fight, not that they want to fight unlike regular soldiers. With a commoner marrying the lord (and subsequently leading an army), the people would see that the threat of the invading army affects them on a personal level, rather than just forced into yet another war where the aristocrats and noble elites sit happily safe back home, while telling their people to go die for another supposedly meaningless war (not unlike what most governments do nowadays, but I digress).
It's not that she wanted to help the nobility. She wanted to be the spearhead for her people, driven by her desire for justice for what Valvert's soldiers did to her village. It's why she joined the army as a regular soldier in the first place, to make a difference with her own hands. Marrying the lord would have spring-boarded her military career (which it did), rising all the way up to the rank of General, giving her far more military power to wield than if she was just a normal lowly soldier.
From Narson's perspective, morale was low when at the time; he had already lost his first wife (Lieze's biological mother) from an unspecified reason, and their invading enemy Valvert is much larger in landmass and had a bigger army. He also didn't want to remarry another woman, but he needed to anyway...for one, to give a young Lieze a much needed mother-figure in her life, and second; in order to provide that symbol of stability...just like how in modern times, people tend to elect politicians who are already married with kids, and view the ones who are single (or divorced) as not being up to the task or unsuitable to lead. It's all about optics. Zirconia acknowledges this, so she agreed to Narson's marriage of convenience offer (basically a politically strategic marriage) where they mutually benefit, without having to actually love (or make love) to one another (hence why she's still a virgin).
Hope that helps.
