At first, the Nobility took his counsel seriously. But as time went on, they came to feel that while his advice may have been well-intentioned, it was always doomed to fail through foolishness and naivete, causing needless losses for the Nobility and the pilgrims.
He may have been a valiant Warrior, but his command was utterly irrational. He seemed eager to lead the Knights who trusted him to their deaths, all while waving his banner and shouting curses, accomplishing nothing of substance.
When he wasn't fighting, he spent all day fussing over his clothes. His soldiers were the best-dressed in the army.
Yet this same incompetent man had, in the short year of his captivity, shown astonishing Courage in front of these Frank and German nobles.
Since the beginning of the year, the Turkic People had been trying to break them. Every week, they would select one of the nobles and subject them to brutal torture.
