Bleh, i thought i will not open my dirty mouth here... but oh wells...
Overall, Darka got a bit pissed cause Eston signed that treaty even every other part on their side disagreed about it. But finally Darka thought it got what it wanted from that war... but there is still troubles on northern border of Coria. Eston made a mistake and weakened severly our negotiation "tools" by signing that treaty.
If Darka would be "nasty" it would just simply agree with Eston and go through Talerium lands, it would be fastest and most effective route to take and we could weaken Talerium good... but there is problem. Darka consider Talerium as their friend. Even thought Talerium and Darka has been diffrent side of war fronts for a long time, we have had decent relations and we have honored each others borders. Darka has not interfered Eston vs. TAlerium wars until there was Eston vs. Talerium, CE, Coria, Tara... Then Darka thougth enough is enough. We had also disagreements with some Eston leaders but it was also important to Darka that CE´s influence wont get any closer to our border. If Darka would not have interfered with BoM... and if South would not have started war against CE, Coria would now share border with Darka. And knowing how big influence CE have/had to Coria, i bet war with them would be on hand.
After CE started to threat Darka that it will move war to our lands, Darka started to do survey with other realms and got some surprising replies. Allies of CE were not too happy about CE´s actions. CE had chewed too big bite and tried to mess around with too many people. When i realized that south would not join crusade against Darka i declared war to CE and to have goal to weaken its power. It will be long war, this war will measure participating realms skills to handle pressure and frustration. Darkas position geographically is sucky. ONly route to CE for us is through those mountains. When south started war, our job is to support them. We will tie up Talerium/Coria/Tara here north, so south have chanche to keep up with CE.
I prolly was not clear enough with my goals and plans with Eston, or Eston underestimated Darkan and Talerium relations.
Taras tone have turned pretty aggressive towards Carelia, and i wouldnt be surprised that if our route to Coria would have been blocked that TAra would propably have started open war against Carelia when their northern border would have been secured. Now Darka have atleast in theory chanche to threat Tara if they turn offensive on this war.
This is intresting war. KK have always been pretty patient and thus i see long war to be on our side as long as we stay united. Coria negotiations were tought test of our unity.
I have deep dislike all kind of OOC babblering and i prefer to keep everything IC.