Talk:Ruling the de'Arnise Keep and Lands/@comment-142.68.20.30-20140809174351/@comment-2001:16B8:5779:9100:E075:5709:A62C:4AA4-20181013231313

The quests just serve for balancing reasons, all other stronghold have significantly better bonuses or quest rewards associated with them, whilst the Keep only gives you a few 1000 gp over the course of the game, the final reward of the quest line being a Full Plate +1 and a Bastard Sword +1, and you can find said or similar equipment way before that, and the 50k XP are laughable, seeing how much XP other stronghold quests can roll in.

It's just for flavour, if you want a stronghold you can "run", get the theatre, otherwise go for sphere or the Paladin HQ.