Determined offered his Golds two choices leading up to the Unification War: swear, and swear their troops, to a loyalty vow and put those troops effectively under realm command, or be attainted from their positions.

The vow specified acting to keep the peace in defence of gnomes, dwarves or any other speaking being just as they would for humans, and not accepting orders that originated from anyone other than the legitimate government of the Realm of Denning.

The vow was bound to, and detectable from, military armrings.