it is relevant because others have been ranting that it's picking on a realm and deliberately on their capital.
That did not ever seem to be the case and you wouldn't do anything purely to 'pick on' a bunch of players. That's a different sort of complaint and not one I'd make.
Again I would suggest that stating things as fact when you don't actually know the facts is not the best way to do things
As Duke of the Chateau and a likely candidate to rule Saffalore I'd been dealing with everybody who had a stake in Chesney, including some people who didn't yet but wanted one. With me were Terran's last Chief Magistrate (Daemon), Chesney's Duke and the current ruler of Saffalore, and all of the nobles from that Duchy. I went out of my way to figure out which way the wind was blowing and if some realm I'd missed had landed in Chesney and sacked the place, I'd say oh well, guess I left out one important name on my 'Hi how are you' greeting card list.
Asylon already said that they know what the Zuma are doing in the North but not in Chesney.
Whether or not you conspired with Chesney's next door neighbor isn't relevant because you didn't play the game the way everyone else does. There was no interaction. If another realm had done what you did, lots of people would have heard about it because you can't keep an invasion force secret for very long.
Whatever the facts are, the way of the world here is that you steamrolled a group of players who had no knowledge of what you were doing and no ability to stop you. Even if all of Barca or all of Aurvandil supported it, I'd never return to Dwilight for that reason alone. I love playing the game and losing because it doesn't happen much. I'm pretty good at this stuff and this was the first conflict in my entire time on BM where I'd ever had to RP losing something significant when Aurvandil showed up. Quintus surrendering to Allomere was tons of fun and would've been more fun if Aurvandil had had more time and wasn't dealing with the loss of a chunk of their characters.
I don't love losing without even playing the game because what that transmits to me about the way of the world is that I'm wasting my time. That it doesn't matter what I do because somebody else realized that convincing one GM of something is a heck of a lot easier than convincing a lot of characters, which is what I spend my time doing.
The distinction is critical because the idea that you are some GM hammer for players you or somebody doesn't like is even more absurd. I know you're doing what you're doing for a reason. My point is that that's even more dangerous, because you're not doing it the way the rest of us have to do it.
