Vix didn't try to give money to Highmarch, what it did was screw the traditional channels and "offer" it to people not responsible for the army's funding, to then use the lack of answers as justification. Daedalus, Archibald, Eros... they had all given gold through Mathias.
It was offered to the ruler and treasurer. I certainly wasn't gonna offer it to the character that was trash talking Vix in all the alliance channels.
Also, I did not know about the Akesh temple thing. I thought that when Zolan took over we had already been in the field with no refit for several weeks running.
