OK, straight OOC Truth, from the player who's character gave the order that resulted in Elsebeth going to Thusloma: The above statements are both wrong and misleading:
1) SA priests had every right to be in Thulsoma. Thulsoma was formed by an SA realm as an SA colony. There were SA temples in a couple regions of Thulsoma, including Storm's Keep. 99.9% of the peasantry in the realm followed SA. In fact, SA priests had as much right to be in Thulsoma as VE priests have to be in Asylon. The parallels between the two situations (Sanguis Astroism/Thulsoma and Verdis Elementum/Asylon) are actually pretty remarkable.
2) SA had no intention at all to invade Thulsoma. It was a crappy little two-bit, tin-pot dictatorship that was so far below the radar that no one cared about it. No one ever thought that Haruka would ever manage to resurrect its corpse and make something worthwhile out of it. We didn't want the land. We didn't want to attack it or kill it. It is true that there was one or two people who were members of SA who probably wanted to attack them. Like Glaumring, who was the leader of the originally colony that failed. Or Allison, the insane lady who drilled holes in her head and wants to basically kill everyone that isn't SA, and about 2/3rds of those who are. But you'll have those kinds of nutjobs in any realm/religion. That does not make the entire religion bent on destruction of all non-SA realms.
3) Up until the time the crusade was called by my character, there was no SA plan for aggression against Thulsoma. Our plan was to ignore Thulsoma, and let the Libero Empire deal with them. The Libero Empire's war with Thulsoma had no religious basis at all. It happened at a time that was convenient for Sanguis Astroism, but we had nothing to do with starting it. If LE had been a bit more successful at fighting Thulsoma, SA would never have gotten involved.
4) Messages from Glaumring or Allison are simply not an accurate depiction of any position or policy of SA, either official or unofficial. Neither one ever had the power to make policy decisions for SA, or give any kind of orders that would result in an SA attack on Thulsoma.
OK, that's just so wrong, I can't even argue with it any more than say that there's nothing in that statement that bears any resemblance to reality.
And note, this is all form an OOC perspective. This isn't any kind of propaganda or posturing. This is the straight truth on the situation.
Who says we have to care how Thulsoma started out? That we have to recognize SA claims to it?
Second of all, it's not because you didn't plan something that other SA members didn't.
Lastly, that's information that's running around.
You aren't the head of SA, Indirik, much less do you represent every single soul in that religion. SA is filled with a lot of people with different aspirations, that your reasons to do X were Y doesn't mean others didn't do it for Z.
