Dominic,
I explained what Koli felt. You can choose to believe whatever you like. I am quite aware Colin left. Go take a little search through the forums, I've said several times that Koli's perspective is skewed, as one might expect by a child abandoned by his father. The OOC situation at the time was rather different than the IC situation, and I do have a number of bad feelings over it, but those are directed at the people involved, none of whom are (I believe) even in D'hara any more.
And no, I don't think I'm magic or godly. I do know that D'hara chose to have the capital in Paisly, and I've heard plenty about the horde spawns in the Barcan area, and I know what horde spawns are like on the other side of D'hara. That you chose not to use those fully is your own problem. I've seen the scout reports, I'm quite familiar with the travel times, and I have a good idea what level of battles it would have taken for D'hara to manage TMP. I'm also quite familiar with how difficult it is to feed cities that size. That doesn't change the fact that 1. there are ways around that, and 2. I've never claimed Koli is fully rational, especially about D'hara.
And yes, OOC, I do find D'hara, and you, quite annoying. I find it particularly annoying when I respond to you making a groundless statement about Luria having no reason to want to conquer the Isles when there are half a dozen reasons that Koli has off-hand, and several others in Luria have more, and you decide that the appropriate way to handle that is to insult me as a player.
If I had the level of grudge you seem to think I do, D'hara would have been invaded long ago. Whether it would have been successful is another matter entirely, of course, but we could have done a fair bit of damage regardless, and the chances of any successful retaliation are essentially none. In point of fact, Koli's personally killed two planned invasions of D'hara.
And unlike some people who can't seem to separate themselves from their Enweilian characters, I tend to like IC/OOC separation. OOC, I think Trinity Flockhart saved the Far East from falling apart from boredom. IC, Jenred thinks she was the most embarrassing Ruler Arcaea ever had. Arlian quite liked Riombara for a while, Colin despised it and thought Delvin was the worst thing to happen to the south by the time he died, Alistaire spied for it because he trusted Delvin's word.
Koli is a young, inexperienced, wishy-washy man who is in deep over his head, has made more mistakes than all the rest of the Bedwyrs combined, and is likely to continue doing so. He oscillates between excessive force and avoiding conflict like the plague, and has a fairly obsessive need to be publicly liked. But, he's fun.
No, I don't particularly like D'hara OOC, nor, at this point, do I care for you. But that has very little bearing on what Koli thinks of it, and he doesn't have an opinion one way or the other for Machiavel.
Feel free to continue indulging the persecution complex you seem to love. Stop insulting me as a player while you do so.
