"What if I were to take one of your enemy's castles by force?" - Does this option actually exist?

When attempting to swear fealty to King Ragnar as a female PC, he doesn't want to grant you a fief to go with it.

One of the dialogue options is, "What if I were to take one of your enemy's castles by force?" He replies something like, "Well then I might be inclined to let you keep it."

So I went off and successfully besieged Wercheg. After completing the siege, there was no option to request that I be allowed to keep it (the only option was "Request no rewards").

I went back to Ragnar and attempted to swear fealty to him again, and got the same dialogue options as before, no recognition that I'd successfully conquered a city.

Potentially useful info:

• Vanilla Warband
• I have ~300 reknown
• I'm a mercenary in the service of the Kingdom of Nords

Is there some secret ritual I need to do in order to trigger this condition? Is the problem that I took a city instead of a castle? Do I need more reknown? Is this not actually a way to join a faction and that dialogue option is a lie?

Submitted November 28, 2018 at 07:42PM by A_S00 https://ift.tt/2Rky49B