I'll grant you that, but conquering suggests you did go in with military force to trounce and annex, that's what conquering is, yes? Not that it's a problem, that's half of history: someone shows up, tears the place apart, declares himself king.

[It's practical to look at history in this light anyway.]

The Tevinter Imperium, my ancestors were conquerors as well and they rather mucked things up a bit.