I have to admit, Phil did a better job than I remembered of pulling the various threads of this story into the speech. Byron probably doesn’t need E-Merl, Frigg, or Sundar to tell him about the quest-post situation: he’s plugged into the community enough that he already knows.

Gonna round out this trilogy of letting others do the heavy lifting with a comment from Mordecai:

Canaghem and Persson,
They think we’re nothing.
Are we nothing?

NO!

Ardaic and Jarvis,
They think they’ve bought us
HAVE THEY BOUGHT US?

NO… t yet!

-Even though we ain’t got heads of houses
We’re a new guild just by sayin’ sooooooooo,
AND THE WORLD WILL KNOW!

What’s it gonna take to stop the dragons?
Are we ready?

YEAH!

What’s it gonna take to stop the savages?
Can we do it?

YEAH!

We’ll do what we gotta do
Until we break the will of His Grace Miyamoto

AND THE WORLD WILL KNOW
AND GASTONIA TOO
Freelancers have
An axe to grind with you!