So, here it is. FEI, Arcaea/Arcachon war. Leaving aside the wider diplomatic issues (which exist, of course, but I know more or less how I'm going to handle them) the war is very shortly going to be a straight Arcaea vs. Arcachon war. Arcachon's military has been completely crushed, and this is the second time the capital has been sacked with other regions ransacked. Military dominance is not a direct problem.
The issue is that the populace of the one city Arcachon has hates Arcaea too much (I suspect from the efforts of Priests/Diplomats in lowering sympathy, as it didn't used to be that bad) for our Diplomats to overcome, and since CTO's work like FTO's we can't even start the takeover.
Enlod is 530 miles away from Arcaea's capital of Remton, and we'd have to take and hold four intervening regions that are filled with followers of Arcachon's state religion. Possible, but blasted difficult.
I think the easiest way to handle this is to drive Enlod rogue and destroy the rest of the realm and then send diplomats in with lots of gold to raise sympathy to an appropriate level. And the easiest way to do that seems to be looting the place, especially by removing all food that they could get to starve the city out.
And before anyone suggests "give up" that's not an option as Arcachon has blatantly broken treaties and refused all attempts at peace or negotiation. As far as I can tell their entire existence right now is devoted to hurting Arcaea as much as possible.
