I was ruler of Oritolon for three or four months until I paused for IRL reasons a couple of weeks ago. I think Crescent's jumping at shadows. That Old Guard leader Crescent talks about who failed I guess is Spearhead? The man who who when last on the throne did and said almost nothing for several months. His only role and intention was to keep Lukon sweet. He has been as quiet since he left the throne as he was on it.
Crescent succeeded Spearhead and equally practised a quiet leadership. When he did speak out, it tended to provoke and alienate some of the most powerful people in the realm. When I made it to the throne with Malice, the Old Guard faction had been shown to have no answers and Crescent had only succeeded in alienating more people by making threats to depose sitting Dukes. The way Crescent reacted at the time, it felt like he already felt a OOC clan was working against him and really seemed to despise me. Virtually every noble in the realm had got a personal letter from me though, Alowca had turned against Crescent wholesale and was behind me as a Lord of Alowca and I articulated a compelling policy, even if I never really implemented it!
Alas, although I got power the old guard still held many positions of power and influence, yet without involving themselves at all in the affairs of the realm any more. So I was frustrated in much of what I wanted to do. Meanwhile, Crescent continued to alienate people with his ways even after I dragged him back into government due to our nobility crisis. Before I paused, there was already a growing backlash that was causing me problems. Three or four people had come to me privately asking me to act against Crescent and they weren't just new players. Likewise, we were getting hammered in a war that, although I'd started and evangelised it, Crescent was getting the flak for being the abrasive, uncompromising general.
Basically, Oritolon was already heading down a road towards civil discord with or without a clan and new players and I'd grown tired of the leadership anyway. A few people in Oritolon know that I basically ran for no other reason than there was no-one else to takeover during the last couple of elections. I'd come to the throne with this grand idea that I could refresh and vitalise Oritolon and left it with the idea that actually, Oritolon needed fundamental reform of a drastic kind.
Oritolon has/had a lot of unresolved problems that were always going to cause trouble eventually. Sadly for Crescent, not only did he needlessly antagonise a lot of new players, but his past actions as ruler meant other powerful people had an agenda against him irrespective of anything else. Forget Khain, this is just the usual Oritolon civil disorder.
