If you'd followed the lore, you would know they are fleeing the Blight - and your realm is surrounded by blighted regions, so it's little surprise you get a lot.
Well, honestly, I was getting just as many monsters and undead before the invasion, though I guess the lands were blighted then too. I suspected, however (and still do), that it has more to do with our extremely low adventurer count. We tried enslaving foreign adventurers when we went to war, but unfortunately we didn't get many opportunities and didn't find many.
And most of the time, it was the undead plaguing us, not the monsters, though I don't know if that changes anything.
Much credit goes to Sassan of Rio for sustaining this momentum, but it's exhausting. The game doesn't encourage realms to cooperate like this. Just the opposite, actually. When the Overlord shows up and starts mocking us for working against years of training that's taught us not to trust one another and then deliberately introduces additional mistrust by baiting Chénier and others, it can get maddening.
Guillaume could have very easily done a lot of things to screw up human efforts and aid the daimons. Allying the daimons, for one. Refusing to take a hit to allow the grand coalition of realms is another. Use daimons as a diversion to continue attacks. Etc, etc.
Instead, he strongly pushed for peace early on, did everything he could to fight the daimons (though with a !@#$ty economy and the resulting poor army in conjunction with constant rogue spawns, the contributions were indeed limited), shares every little bit he gets (which is pretty much nothing, as he's dealing with rogues more than with daimons). The North doesn't trust him because they don't want to. He expects him to have forgiven everyone, as if it was necessary for cooperation, and to accept everything they do as being right and justified. He's done nothing but help the cause, and yet was criticized for doing something Rio also did without any voices being raised against them.
Guillaume isn't stirring any mistrust, he just won't accept to forgive the people that continue acting as reprehensibly as ever. The North doesn't share not because they mistrust us, but because they want us to die first, and hope to emerge as the sole survivors of the invasion. It's a typical scheme that has been seen in the last two invasions, in which the best thing to do was always to divert the brunt of the invasion elsewhere as invasions were on a timer anyways.
As if telling us how to defeat daimons would make us hinder them less...
There's a guild for unique item exchanges or something, but none for information exchange.
With the North and South split, it's a little late to start a guild...
OOC, all I am really willing to say is that all information you need is in players' hands already. Your main weakness is that people don't share much. And I don't mean that as in copy&paste everything to everyone, but really major events. Sint priests is a great example - that was an entirely new vector, and they didn't tell anyone about it for days.
I asked their ruler about all these executions, and never got a reply. A good amount of time later, another ruler shared a letter from a judge or something that somewhat explained it... Sint, imo, is the realm sharing the least.
I *did* tell everyone for years that Sint will be our undoing.
Is the theme that we have to cast aside all our differences and affiliations to unite against a common foe? IVF has pretty much done the opposite, much to my own dismay. New religion, old grievances, useless grudges, etc.
If Riombara's ruler tells his followers, very present in Fheuv'n, to stir up against their lords and to attack Fheuv'n's new official religion's priests, that's all good and games, right? That's a good way of uniting against the invaders, right? But if Guillaume protests, oh, that meanie! Why won't he just shut up, right?
With all these daimon priests in Sint, do you think I want to leave the religion our serfs in the hands of those that have never done anything else than try to kill us every chance they get?
What Guillaume asked was extremely reasonable: Tell your followers to ignore us, and you'll never feel any repercussions of our religion having been created as we won't come to preach in your lands. He then also extended that condition to Enweil, saying that Rio priests should have the permission from Enweil before preaching there. Which is usually the law in 99% of the game's realms: no foreigners may preach without permission. But no, Rio's ruler insists he has the right to preach wherever, and to tell them to sabotage our realm whenever.
What displeases some is that Guillaume won't let himself be a pushover for this. Why should he? He considers his realm doomed anyways, and he knows that the realms least hit by the invasion would have ganged up on him after the invasion regardless of what he said or did. Why shouldn't he fight for his honor and for what he deems is right? What's the point of kissing ass when you have nothing worth surviving for?
