A thin noble of the House of Austria by the name of Dieter von Schüsselen raises from the Austrian benches to adress the Diet.

My Lords I have just received word from my master Duke Leopold about his successful landfall in the Levant. He should be approaching Damascus as we speak.

He wishes me to convey his congratulations to the appointed Counts of Outremere and I am to extend his gratitude towards King Otto von Kassel for appointing my master as a possible successor should anything unpleasant happen to his Majesty, which I don't hope.

He is saddened to hear of the loss of Zagreb but has every faith in the Bavarians under Lothar Steffen to remedy this situation.