*shrugs* I wasn't around at the time Soliferum was destroyed, but I was around before that and I know how close Soliferum and Zonasa were. And, from what I've been told, the way it appeared to everyone outside Zonasa was that you supported Soliferum right up until the point where it was obvious Soliferum was going to lose, then declared war, took Alanurs and declared peace again. Whether that's true or not, and no matter your justifications, that's the way it appeared to those outside your realm and such behaviour is going to leave an impression on both characters and players.
Wow. It seems we did a really good job of keeping our secrets. I think we were actually worried that we had a leak, the fact that it seems no one outside the council knows exactly how long we had been talking about fighting Soliferium (there were people talking about it from just about the moment the war began) is actually quite reassuring. We did a good job.
. . . perhaps
too good for our own image.
