"Kingdoms get founded around that kind of crafting capability.  Literally, you could work for two years and produce forty-eight +6 items, and pay them over to forty-eight recent seventh-circles and equivalent fighters to stomp a minor country for you.  If your wits ever stop being valuable to Cheliax, if they ever stop being this valuable to Cheliax, you're getting locked in a crafting workshop and never coming out, you know that, right."

"Kingdoms get founded around that kind of crafting capability.  Literally, you could work for two years and produce forty-eight +6 items, and pay them over to forty-eight recent sixth-circles and equivalent fighters to stomp a minor country for you.  If your wits ever stop being valuable to Cheliax, if they ever stop being this valuable to Cheliax, you're getting locked in a crafting workshop and never coming out, you know that, right."