Here's what happened to Terran, stated in as neutral a way I can put it:
Asylon, without announcing, attacked Terran from behind. We marched north to fight them as they fled. Meanwhile, Aurvandil landed a huge army in our territory in the south. Our forces were caught all over the place and smashed while Aurvandil hammered the Chateau.
Quintus, in an RP (not game mechanics), "surrendered" the Chateau to Aurvandil. Hireshmont had some reasonable suspicions that Quintus may have done more than that, but actually coordinated the invasion/surrender with Aurvandil (never clear if that was actually true). So he began calling Quintus a traitor, etc, etc.
Then, in a pre-organized plan, Shokalom and Chesney seceded to form Phantaria (Shokalom) and Saffalore (Chesney). This may seem weird: why was Chesney in the realm of Saffalore? Well, Quintus had planned on flipping the Chateau to Saffalore. But he misunderstood the game mechanics and was not able to flip the Chateau to the realm of Saffalore. So we got Terran in Chateau Saffalore, Saffalore in Chesney, and Phantaria in Shokalom.
Saffalore quickly pissed off D'Hara and Barca, so they attacked it. Phantaria soon attacked Terran. Meanwhile Hireshmont became ruler of Terran and made himself duke and lord because Quintus deleted his character in frustration.
The Moot then kicked all the Terran nobles out of the elderships.
Hireshmont, rejected by the Moot and with a crippled realm facing rival factions on both sides, realized he could reform Terran however he wanted. So he caused it to fall into anarchy, then reformed it as a Theocracy, and he invited Astroists from elsewhere to join. They did so.
Then Phantaria attacked Terran. Hireshmont lobbied the church very hard, and got the church to declare a defensive crusade to protect Terran from Phantaria. This Crusade was a huge success and forced Phantaria to back down, BUT, it seriously pissed off a lot of Astroists who dislike Hireshmont and sided with Phantaria, or who were upset at the precedent of the church declaring crusades to defend theocracies.
In Sanguis Astroism, the main figurehead for this opposition was King Leopold of Niselur. He caused a ruckus in SA and then declared war on Astrum. He was supported by Luria Nova, Libero Empire, Asylon, and the Farronite Republic. Astrum was supported by Morek, Terran, and Corsanctum.
Terran actually won its first battle against Phantaria and FR in this war, but there was no way they could hold out forever: so they are flipping their lands to D'Hara and going north to join Astrum. Astrum has won its first big battle against Niselur too, but is getting looted as well. Luria Nova and Morek haven't fought any major battles, just some lotting, but look to be brokering peace anyways.
So that's how things stand. Because of how widely diplomatically enmeshed Terran was, its implosion has caused ripples that have set all of Dwilight ablaze.
