lol, yea, I wouldn't have written history that way. Amusingly, Vix and Perdan's corruptions also pushed Highmarch to adopt a War Measures act into its constitution.
But yea... from here, it looks like Octavian participated in pushing Highmarch to the North... and then Octavian participated in pushing House Timerat to the North. You seem content to put this all on the schemes of others, when really it just looks like people trying to constantly get the heck away from you.