“Vampires” and “humans” have been fighting for a long time. Two tribes, tired of long unknown fights, tacitly enter into a truce. It is a foreign truce that stands for a truce but the fact is that we are secretly looking for weapons that can destroy each other!
He may have only come within earshot after gerwer let go of Deon? Otherwise it was just him trying to show that he's above the dukes and feel like a big powerful man lol