3. D'Hara is seen as an usurper of Lurian authority and claim to the lands BECAUSE they were a secessionist realm against a legitimate member of the Lurian Empire.
Luria has the prior claim to that of D'Hara and as D'Hara's very foundation occurred through the destruction of a Lurian government, they can easily be seen as nobles in rebellion illegally controlling lands they have no rights to.
4. Luria Nova has engaged in treaties with D'Hara while D'hara held Qubel Lighthouse and/or Port Raviel as its capital city. Lurian realms have in fact engaged in numerous instances of direct diplomacy and agreement and treaty with D'Hara, and, under terms of estoppel, cannot cease this service once rendered. Once you sign away Qubel and Raviel by signing establishing treaties with the owners of Qubel and Raviel, you recognize the transfer.
Might have been true at one point, but I agree with Vellos. If you conduct negotiations and recognize them as a sovereign entity, then you've legitimized them. Doesn't mean you can't ignore all that diplomacy treating them as a real and rightful realm, and beat the war drum with "they be rebels". Just, OOC you have to admit that Luria dealt with them not as rebels but as a true and proper realm.
