Pssst! Hey, lean down under this table, what I'm about to suggest to ye could get us both into a lot of pain!
The Emperor?
I doubt you can get him to care! Well, if you can get him out the Imperial Zoo, maybe. His lordship has been spending all his time there stroking his griffen! I hear he's even considered moving his court there ("for those sunny days"). So enamored with the his zoo that he's taken to allow champions to borrow his sacred hammer whenever chaos comes to town. I mean LOAN out Ghal Maraz a two and half thousand year old relic?! --but not offer the same champion to employ any of the Imperial Zoo's powerful warsteeds?
I'm not saying, I'm just saying...