And your posts on here do not match the !@#$ you're sending IC.
Forums: "Oh, we'll stay out of it as long as our allies do."
In-game: "SMASH WESTMOOR IF THEY GET NEAR OUR BORDERS!!!!11!!"
You are looking for any avenue to declare war, frankly. And I do not just say that because I can, I'm recalling past incidents where basically one thing has been said, and the opposite done. The two cases in point I recall are Fontanese infiltrators attacking Westmoorian nobles (one of whom was Malos at the time). What did Fontan say? "We'll punish them, that was not sanctioned by us." What was the actual outcome? Nothing. In fact I strongly suspect it was the opposite, a lot of back-slapping and hearty laughter.
Then there was that incident regarding those two Sirionite cavalry units which entered Westmoorian territory and attacked three of our nobles - Ravier included? Then proceeded to throw taunts around which were borderline as far as IC/OOC goes. Same story - "Not sanctioned, we'll punish". What is the reality? I suspect it goes along the lines of "Good job boys, come and be merry and laugh at those Westmoorian fools".
In other words, there's a whole lot of double-talk. Which is why as Ravier, I do not believe a word when you came to Westmoor City to preach about peace and ties. Talk is cheap, after all, and now the proof is coming out. I also would call into question why a retired General has been called back to active service. It may be nothing more than the fact there were no suitable candidates. Or it could be a prelude to something bigger.
Problem is, we won't know until it's too late, most likely. And at the moment, it's all hypotheticals and rhetoric, but I reckon we'll see Sirion getting involved before long.
The truth about the journey to Bruck was that one of our armies was moving home from Kazan and the Marshal was posting the shortest route generated by the travel time simulator without studying it to closely. Some people took this opportunity to follow orders and try stir up a situation against Westmoor. They were massively scolded for this and certainly not given a pat on the shoulder for it. It wasn't very viable to give them a formal punishment as they had followed their orders to the letter.
I can imagine how it looks IC to Westmoor though
There are some people that hate Westmoor blindly in Sirion. This is for historical reasons dating back to the days when Wesmoor was founded. Occasionally they run for office on the program of destroying Westmoor, but they have so far lost badly. Current government actually likes King Jor and his administration quite well for being the first government of Westmoor ever who actually make any sense, but we know that Westmoor is Westmoor and they will likely not last and are feeling very nervous about the prospect of them expanding into a major power, the day their government changes next time.
