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Chenier

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Re: the conflict looming
« Topic Start: June 08, 2011, 04:43:52 AM »
Well, I can give one information from within Riombara - believe it or not, they do not want a conflict with Enweil. If they would, they would have attacked Enweil weeks ago - Riombara was basically stable and (apart from a few infrastructure buildings) did not need any real growth to be ready for war. While Enweil was beset by monsters and still had a long way to go to become stable. Riombara was very much aware at that time that they were in a position of considerable strength in relation to Enweil (roughly twice their army size, smaller territory while having a larger income, less dark borderlands) - a difference which they knew would vanish within 2-4 months (depending on monster attacks). They chose peace with and helping Enweil. Riombara is basically waiting if Enweil attacks them or not - hoping its the latter.

It would be a nice change.. though I am sure that Chenier has an explanation all on his own for that...which basically revolves around Riombara being both too strong and too weak while still being highly aggressive and their help being nonexistent, not asked for, plus with Riombara  not receiving _any_ attacks from the borderlands it still needs to be premetively attacked by Enweil on a peace mission...grin.

Riombara is indeed being complacent... Doesn't mean we don't resent it for taking Fwuvoghor from us. Our recovery would likely be going a lot better if we had that city back. Ete City was also a big part of our economy, and that's not coming back... I wouldn't expect Enweil to go knocking on Riombara's door any time soon.

So while Fwuvoghor is a major irritant and old insults are not forgotten, Riombara *did* help (and most importantly, didn't exploit our position of weakness) and vengeance for perceived ills (the previous war was to get Delvin's head for Katia's murder, which was never achieved) is not feasible, so Enweil will likely maintain the peace as well. I see no love for Riombara, but not calls for conflict either.
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