That's why there's never been any budging politically from the Kindaran side - the nobles don't want it.
Then that sounds like Kindara's problem, not the Empire's. The Empire got into the war with the stated purpose of defending Zonasa, so it's hardly shocking that our terms include returning territory taken from them. It's not unreasonable and certainly not deserving of "public outcry". As previously stated, if a realm starts a war and then loses, they shouldn't expect to keep territory taken from the winners. If the Kindaran nobility has a problem with that, then it's not us being unreasonable.
What I was saying was a general point about the way that players appear to distribute themselves. For Arcaea, you can substitute the Cagilan Empire, Darka (pre-glacier), Perdan, Sirion, etc. On appearances, such realms tend to attract the more military-minded, log in every turn, players (look at the number of players who have character distribution of - character in Perdan; character in pre-glacier Darka; character in Arcaea. Or Perdan/Cagilan Empire/Arcaea. Or some other combination of such relams). This tends to lead to a concentration of such players in certain realms on each island, broadly speaking leading to a thin representation of them in the other realms. This has become even more pronounced due to the decline in player numbers. There are realms out there now who can literally find no-one who can effectively run their military because of the general shortage of people who are into the strategy side of the game.
I don't believe this to be even vaguely true. Given you don't have characters in those realms, you're making guesses based on assumptions. You're mistaking a hyper-active central authority figure for depth of military command. Look at Perdan - and virtually the whole southern alliance - without Atanamir. Struggling.
Correct. The initial war was between Zonasa and Kindara. The Empire interjected itself into the war at a later stage. It might have been Galiard's intention to fight the Empire (in fact, I'm pretty sure that it was). But Kindara never sought a direct conflict with the Empire at that stage in events (well, with Arcaea and Coralynth - that's all the Empire was then). Arcaea put itself into the war, or Zonasa brought them in by joining the Empire - which ever way you want to look at it.
Some corrections: The initial war was between Cathay, Kindara and Zonasa, but the Empire declared its intention to defend Zonasa before any military action took place. The Empire was also composed of Arcaea, Coralynth and Sorraine, not just the former two. Also, Velax did everything he possibly could to keep Kindara out of the war, but you decided to fight anyway, even when Galiard made it very clear the war was now one to destroy the Empire, not Zonasa. You chose the fight and you got it.
