Recently, a noble of the alliance to which I belong was captured by enemies.
The captured noble was fear-bound, and knew only standard, non-NP skills.
Now, the interesting part: We received a note from our enemies to the effect
that they terrorized him for 99 points, and he wouldn't pledge because the
faction in question lacked the requisite 3 NPs for the noble. Now, the noble
_should_ only have cost 1 NP. Seems that people face the loss of NPs through
capture, as well as through nobles going rogue.
So, folks might want to start carefully counting their NPs and making sure
they've got what they'e supposed to have... and be cautious about capturing
others' nobles.
Larry Stanbery