That... is completely at odds with what is being claimed both IG and OOG. If that's what they're intending, then they are hiding their true plans quite thoroughly.
To be honest, I just like fun and flavour. I think Leopold would have liked few more RL months of prep time for this war, but his plans were accelerated when Sir Rannekk, tired of not getting any opponents to fight, said he didn't see any point in continuing(after a bad day at work), and almost left.
Leopold said there was more to battlemaster than battles, and that wars take time to create, and promised to accelerate things. I think the sight of losing another player to the stagnant north caused all nobles of Niselur to accelerate things.
Immediately after Kabrinski took reign as Grandmaster of Terran and threatened to void the treaty between Phantaria and Terran, King Leopold asked what Niselurian nobles thought of this.
I thought we need to send a strong message, so I suggested that we show we withdrew from the charter by re-forming as a monarchy. Surprisingly everyone jumped on board.