At the tribal moot at Raven's Ait, the heroes hear about the Dundealos tribe: the tribe has rebeled again; the tribe is disbanded, and most members are killed, enslaved, or forced to flee to their kin among the Pol-Joni.
Broddi takes this as confirmation of the appeasement strategy and batters his opponents with this ‘evidence’ of what happens to those who openly resist the Lunar Empire.