I'm going to chime in here because why not?
2008-03-11 Pian en Luries - Alanna Anaris elected queen.
2008-03-16 Everguard - Fisc Arylon elected High King
2008-03-16 Madina - City of Paisly taken over.
2008-03-25 Pian en Luries - City of Port Nebel taken over.
2008-04-15 Pian en Luries - Duke Edelstein Greneburie secedes the Duchy of Port Nebel forming the Tyranny of Shadovar.
2008-09-16 Shadovar - Duchess Katayanna Ogren secedes the city of Port Raviel to form the realm of D'Hara.
So we can reasonably assume/claim that Shadovar controlled the Tomb islands at the time of D'Hara's foundation (which was created by a Lurian, no less. Check Katayanna's page if you wanna make sure.) I understand they had monster problems and lost some territories around Nebel, but not to Melodia.
Alanna was Queen of Pian en Luries when Edelstein created the colony of Shadovar. Since it was a sanctioned colony by Pian en Luries, Alanna got a claim. That's how it works. If my realm takes over some land, and you secede that land with permission to make a colony, I still get a claim.
Guess what guys? Alanna's alive.
That's Luria's claim Luria will press her claim. It's not about inheritors, the realm of PeL, or anything like that. We've got the first person to send another person out there. Nothing was there (including people with claims) beforehand.
Also
2008-08-04 Pian en Luries - Completes successful colony takeover of Qubel Lighthouse to form Porto Lancia.
Alanna's got that covered to.
But yeah, war will decide the victor. Yay!