Talk:Duke's Demesne/@comment-76.119.233.125-20121031113920/@comment-3498155-20140306002852

SPOILERS.

The duke didn't defeat the dragon - recall your own encounter with the dragon at the end of the game: you get asked to choose between sacrificing one person to stay the dragon's wrath, or fight the dragon. Apparently the duke chose the first option, to sacrifice someone. In effect, the duke is still an Arisen - thus any pawns that approach him close enough will sense this. Therefore in order to keep up the lie that he slew the dragon, he issued this rule.

(There is no question that the duke is an Arisen, proven by what happens after the player actually manages to kill it.)

This implies that the duke never actually travels away from his demesne though, which seems awkward. True, he can just order soldiers to carry messages to his outer domains as needed, but I find it a bit strange nobody in Gran Soren ever comments that the duke's never seen outside.