So great was Servella's renown as a swordmaster that a foreign kingdom requested her service as their knight instructor. Due to her youth and beauty, detractors believed the arrangement had been formed during a tryst with the king, but she did not lower herself to address such slander. Rather, she chose to prove the extent of her talents through her strict training regimen. Those who received her tutelage could not deny its rigor, but for that very reason, they believed there was no higher honor than attaining her approval.