[USER=16675]@Birdsfoot_Violet[/USER] 

• 10 wealth tokens to East Consul
• 10 Wealth tokens to Crookback Borough.

[USER=11357]@FireFan96[/USER] 

• 4 Wealth Tokens to House Novak
• 2 Wealth tokens to Cadwyn Marth

[USER=14931]@slurmancer[/USER] 

• An unconditional surrender is issued to the Rutgher Theocracy, which is unkindly denied.
• Navigation acts are offered to the Soren Kingdom, specifically Regal Currency and Missionary allowance with optional Regalian Trade Port.
• The same Navigation Acts are issued to the Serman Duchy, which is set as a condition to them to even be allowed to sit at the negotiating table to take land from the Rutgher Theocracy.

This all goes wrong.

• The Minister severely overplayed their hand on the following conditions:
  • The war between Soren and Rutgher was not started by the Old Gods elements, but by an illegal government. For all intents and purposes, Soren was planning to take some land, but that desire was very strained because it did not consider the Old Gods subjects of Rutgher responsible.
  • There was already a heightened alertness against Regalia's religious motives, following the pogroms against the Unionists in Rutgher Theocracy. Many of the Old Gods nations here were looking for a culprit.
  • The Serman Duchy was under no requirement of Regalia to monitor or control the peace process, as they were well able to complete the war by themselves. The implication that their allowance to be part of the war's end was contingent on Regalia's approval was highly insulting to the Duke's proud sensibilities.
• As such, the Soren, Serman and Rutgher Theocracy all make peace among each other, fronting their Velheim/Ceardian cultural and religious unity against a foreign aggressor, essentially painting this whole event, from the moment of the Unionist uprising, as a grand Regalian conspiracy to subject the whole of the Carrhen Continent to Unionist Conversion, as allowing missionaries in the majority of the nations would eventually pressure the rest to do the same. This has the following effects:
  • Petrou's forces are declared illegal trespassers, and have to make a very hurried evacuation from the Soren Kingdom which has turned hostile to their presence. They are allowed to leave peacefully as gratitude for their assistance, but are told that if they come back, they will be treated as enemies. House Petrou has now lost their negotiating position and is essentially kicked out of the war that isn't happening anymore.
  • The Soren Kingdom releases all prisoners of war and the armies of the Rutgher Theocracy that were not defeated or killed in battle, but instead imprisoned. Contrary to the Consul's statements, the Rutgher Theocracy actually lost very few soldiers in its conflict with Soren because they were surrounded and surrendered. There hadn't actually been any major battles either since Petrou only did skirmishes against border forts and cutting off supplies. With the Soren Kingdom now no longer being hostile, communication between the Old Gods government and the army was restored. The army is essentially still fresh and undefeated.

[USER=11716]@onearmsquid[/USER] 

• The Faure army is mobilized and joins House Gwentyr in invading the Rutgher Theocracy.
• Faure's army is instructed to focus on evacuating Tolonne people. The generals inform the Duke that there are no Tolonne people on Carrhen, a Velheim/Ceardian continent.

[USER=17275]@NebulaePrimo[/USER] 

• House Gwentyr sends 2 Wealth Tokens to House Petrou.
• House Gwentyr moves its army from Arlora & Torse to Rutgher. Because this rapid re-mobilization is costly, the army is billed 3 Wealth Tokens (not paid unless instructed) to cover the expenses of a rapid remobilization.
• House Gwentyr and Faure declare war on Rutgher and land in the north. The three nations, Rutgher, Soren and Serman consider this Regalia's answer after their ultimatum, so the three nations declare war on the /entire/ Regalian Empire in one go.
• House Gwentyr and Faura make a landing in the north of Rutgher, because all of their armies along with Serman and Soren are still in the west, but these two armies combined are expected to be outnumbered 9 to 1 when the Old Gods nations have fully mobilized to counter their attack. They hold their position near the coast for now.
• The other nations in the area start becoming unresponsive/vague with their statements. The implication is that if Regalia does not properly answer the Rutgher situation and resolve it, or properly express some strength in the region, it will likely cause a domino effect of Naval Treaties being broken by the other as of yet uninvolved Carrhen nations, as they largely are only maintained in the belief that Regalia has no strength to project.

There are still multiple ways out of this situation, but it has certainly become a lot more complicated. The Rutgher Theocracy's answer is something along the lines of "The Gods will smile on my honorable death against the eraser of faith and the darkness in which the Old Gods are deigned to be smothered from the world, can you say the same, Imperial?"