You don't get to just declare war on our church, say bad stuff and expect it to go back to status-quo by saying "oops, we didn't mean it"
Did Florence declare war against the 'church'?
You also know she appointed all the libero rebels to lord positions in candiels, let it seceed and joined them imediantly?
You also know that in Madina even war declarations can be made by every single landowner, the Grand dodge just opens the window for there is no game mechanics for that yet?
And also, Madina is weird, don't always take them serious as a realm, there just a bunch of liberals competing with each other
In this case, we're making peaceful attempts with Morek cause the player of von Genf actually did quite well, and managed to impress Abbot and by proxy Vallyn. Also it turns out there may be a few nobles who sympathize with SA and kept their mouths shut when the others were around.
Throw in Madina being threatened by Barca, Terran, D'Hara, Aurvandil, and Fissoa. . .and well. We might have a few positions in our roster of friends opening up
We still don't like Allison But with von Genf's actions we can discount Allison as being a one off - and that SA is better represented by von Genf and others.
We wouldn't be taking this step, but Morek contacted us, and sent us an Ambassador looking for peace. Vallyn might like war, but he knows full well marching past Paisly with an army is foolish. (700 miles from the Capital? ugh, morale just plummets after that).
Madinas are shocked for life after those diplomatic treats, the unity in the south can be trown out of the window now, or atleast for Madina.
Its not a smart strategy of them if they seek to unite the south without destroying Madina.
And it seems they seek to unite the south WITH Madina.
Madina feels betrayed and probably will barley trust a southerner again.
Pierre came along and helped us greatly while our so called 'brothers' stood by and in numerous occasions sucsesful evaded any possible help towards the republic after gladly accepting there help before.
Its a natural movement of Madina to shift its attention north in the search for friends.(where so lonely
)
I think that is something all these nations would have seen coming from here recent actions.
So how is this conflict going? Aurvandil is still standing, despite Nosferatus confident approach... Fissoa had one noble coming over from Aurvandil though, the beginning of the end?
It depends what you call standing.
If i support road kill by two branches so it appears standing up would you say the animal is standing?
I'd say it still looks like a bloody mess.
(and no, i have no particle experience with that, in case your wondering...)