Given the general OOC bias against them, do you think it is at all possible for them to win the IC war? There are precious few people able to properly separate IC and OOC. I've certainly had times of not being able to properly distance the two.
Yes, it is, and easily. They could rewrite this war and win public support easily, for example, by converting to Sanguis Astroism.
Or just by not being unilateralists with a cult of personality about their monarch.
Honestly, this war against Aurvandil isn't about clanning at all. It's about Aurvandil's being a schoolyard bully in a very IC way, and them very ICly being complete and utter failures at diplomacy. War they can do; diplomacy they cannot. They very well might win the war, in which case their ignorance of diplomacy might be vindicated. But yes, I think that they could win the propaganda war.
