Morek needs a bigger nudge than HD. I've tried to pursue some balanced conflicts, but either everyone seems to love being alliance chains and considers war evil or I can't get replies back. After all, it gets really discouraging to do anything myself.
I mean look at Swordfell and Westfold. Westfold starts a limited war with a relative challenge for themselves. Swordfell's response? Immediately, 'We are going to destroy you'. Just like joining two other realms against a realm with a single city-region. Morek had lots of potential conflicts with each neighbour, but preferred to just sign alliances with their neighbours instead restoring the old SA alliance powerbloc of Astrum-Morek-Arnor. You offer to support your ally and they just ignore you to trade regions and sign alliances because of this misguided idea that religions should be all allied and never fight each other. Arnor is like Swordfell, always preferring to crush small neighbours and try to build an empire where they have so many regions they can't have enough lords for them.
Arnor is already aggressive against HD as is and I know where Morek's loyalties will always lie, so it'll be just a repeat of the previous war. Try to help our ally Westfold and Swordfell/Arnor/Morek will go on about how we are now gangbanging Swordfell and pile in on us. I've been trying to march out to help Westgard, but seriously, at that distance, its no wonder I can't get anyone interested in trekking so far.
We need to fight a war, but any limited war will just be broken and turn into being overwhelmed. And after attempting to try to fight a limited war to rejuvenate Eponllyn and having that backfire with Perdan/Vix going back on all their agreements, I don't particularly feel like repeating that all over again right now.
In my view, religious elders should be antagonizing their faithful to deal with these issues ICly as much as we discuss them OOCly. Silent government members, too many alliances, collecting too many titles etc. as being imbalanced, sinful, unethical, evil etc.
