Well, guess what. This time you lost and Perdan returned the favour. We did not destroy you even despite the hatred crap and constant middle fingers flying our way. You have as much a chance to come back as Perdan did way back.
Perdan did this before when they stole Ibladesh/Al Arab and left us with Semall. Weeks later convincing the ally that left us out to dry against Caligus to conquer Semall and destroy us. Only with Fallangard was Eponllyn able to survive (and got Itorunt in the process). Perdan/Perleone response? Quarantine Eponllyn away from all other realms and threaten to annihilate Eponllyn if they ever touched foot into Perleone (which was the only border we ever had). Driving players away in boredom. This after we had tried to include Perleone as a friendly neighbour, which they said they wanted nothing to do with, until Armonia cried to them for help in their dying throes.
When the ice came, Perdan wanted Eponllyn to give up on their realm entirely, fight for Perdan to conquer Oligarch, and maybe out of the kindness of their heart they would give us a new realm. You know, months later after we had lost more players along the way and become assimilated into Perdan. Sirion *gives* us Oligarch and Perdan tried to annihilate/genocide us again. We actually win against Perdan for once, allow them to live, are cooperating, preparing to help them out against the rebellious Vixens in their civil war (in a defensive posture only). And then suddenly Perdan starts a gamey OOC war with Vix and tell Eponllyn they want nothing to do with us anymore. By the time we have readjusted ourselves and are fighting a new war, attracting new nobles to the realm, Perdan and Vix want into the war (after they had just demanded no one intervene in *their* war). So Nivemus joins in. And then Vix wails for peace. And the war we just got involved in ends. So we go looking for a new war *again*. Perdan wants passage rights. Oh alright, we can have a limited war like you fought with Vix before, since we all agree limited wars and small realms are good! Hey, why are you looting us? Hey, why are you TOing our regions?
So yes, I'm !@#$ing annoyed at three years of getting beat down by Perdan over and over and over and over again, no matter how cooperative we have tried to be, and all their god damned 'limited war, small realms' circlejerk rhetorical bull!@#$. Eponllyn just wanted to fight some !@#$ing reasonable wars. But Perdan cannot let that be. They have to destroy us, taking cities. Try to annihilate us. Or jump into our wars and end them before we even get started after they've had their own wars. If there is one thing I can count on in EC, its for Perdan to !@#$ with Eponllyn.
You really need to learn to lose with grace. You conquered Perdan's capital some time ago. Later it took it back from you. Move on.
I think you really are projecting here. You speak of Perdan being bent on winning, while in fact you are the one being completely over the top because you lost. For shame.
This has nothing to do with a single !@#$ing loss. Thats the whole point. We have lost. Over and over. And kept playing through it. Perdan kept coming at us no matter where we were at. So yes, after three plus !@#$ing years of Perdan's bull!@#$, I am fed up. This has to do with the !@#$ing behavioral attitude of Perdan players. My characters have 'lost' plenty as I play them for their storyline more than winning. Which is why you will see them behave realistically and to their own detriment at times. Or I push them into unrealistic goals that often fall-short, just to do something different. I expected Eponllyn to be dead with the Glaciers/Freeze, so its a !@#$ing miracle it even survived to Oligarch, let alone capturing Perdan's capital after Perdan had stolen Eponllyn's original capital to found its Perleone puppet. Capturing the enemy's capital after he colonized your capital, in a war the enemy started to annihilate you...it was beautiful. But I never expected it to happen. But that is all a tangent from the issue of Perdan's behavioral tendency over many years.
EDIT: And what sparked my most recent frustration was the realization of Perdan executing advies just for being of an enemy realm when my adventurer I was barely logging in once or twice a week to hunt with was executed without a word. Which as I said before, alone is fine, I've done it myself here and there, advies are intentionally disposable, !@#$ happens. But then I noticed it was Perdan who executed them. And I realized, yet again, it was Perdan behind another 'incident'. And I ask myself...why is it always !@#$ing Perdan that these things happen from? Its not the isolated incident here or there. It seems to be a consistent militarist policy of 'destroy anything not of Perdan'. Its not about the specific advy loss, the specific lost battle, war, city, whatever. Its the whole trend that is noticeable from players within Perdan, from Atanamir and his ilk, to the new return of players since the war with Eponllyn, and how Perdan has behaved with those players compared to without.
