Pah, the Vikings of the North deserve what they get. This is the price of abandoning your allies, the realms that take their place aren't your allies.
I don't disagree, but none of the realm's coming after us have said that. Us deciding to pull ourselves out of the war by forming Heorot is probably the most legitimate reason anyone would have for declaring war on us. To be honest though, who were our allies to begin with though? Darka?
None of those other realms bordering us ever gave us an impression in the Barony that they were allies, especially after Eston rolled over, and we kept hearing rumors they were planning on threatening invasion in exchange for regions. Again, unless Sordnaz was really good friends with them and didn't tell us anything.
