I COULDN'T have done it any faster without making Tara target number one for the continent.
And without other rulers helping and proposing ideas as they did it never would have worked. I could not have made the changes we did alone. No way. No how.
We all worked hard and long to turn Atamara around.
The story I just told was merely MY story of what I did. And it is a very fragmentary one. 
I most certainly did not "do" this.
We all did.
Well you always would've had Caergoth's support in such efforts to the grave and I'm pretty sure Minas Leon would have gladly assisted and Talerium would prob have stayed out. But yeah, that would still have been suicide prob. In the south (Suville/Caergoth) we had been attempting to find solution after solution to create fun for our players, which I think we did as well as possible.
But you're right, without a larger concencus that something had to happen, I'm not sure how far we'd gotten.
