To give an Asylonian perspective to all of this since it was our initial battle that kicked most of this off...
We had already perceived Terran and D'Hara as becoming SA puppet states and were afraid of the regions around us forming a stable SA alliance. Aurvandil told us they were going to attack Terran and wanted our help. We saw this as a golden opportunity to mix up the region a bit and so readily jumped on board.
Afterward Asylon and FR were going to divide up Phantaria land. FR nabbed two or three regions and we got one too. Around this time we also got into contact with Perth. He assured us he had no strong feelings towards SA. We also felt sympathetic towards another underdog realm (though it can be argued we are hardly an underdog now, historically Asylon has always been pretty powerless) and also they didn't seem like they would become a threat anytime soon. We thought it would be more interesting to let them stay than split their lands with FR (not without dissent on our side) and FR didn't really seem to care too much and so we recognized their sovereignty.
Not too long after this is when their problems with new Terran really manifested politically, though of course it was inherent in some form since old Terran's collapse.
