Delmotte - 10,000 Regals are used to bribe the Feudal Council to mobilize men and ships to eject the Wardens. The Feudal council does not need much convincing, and mobilizes 10 ships and 30,000 troops. - 5 Delmotte warships position at the mouth of the Shoenn to deter Warden vessels from passage, however this is ineffective, since the Wardens use passanger ships without any identification, and the Delmotte ships avoid blockading the transit areas. - 21,000 troops under Markus Delmotte (10k Delmotte, 10k Faulkner, 1k Faulkner personal troops) in the Capital. (absent orders to be sent out to a province). - Delmotte grants military access to Hexenblood, Avalorn and du Triege. - Marceau Delmotte spends 30,000 regals from the Crown bank in releasing a large PR effort in Maisondire to switch the population to Imperial culture through poetry. This initiates the conversion process. - Stipends for the royal court were changed. du Triege - 5,000 soldiers are sent to join with the Avalorn army with Eleonora du Kirsch and Kavia Alearaheal. - 2,500 soldiers are sent to protect the port of Irvelle with Leufred du Triege, preventing Warden entry. - 2,500 soldiers are sent to protect the port of Laconne with Alcuin du Kirsch, preventing Warden entry. Lok-Guthrain - 3,000 troops are borrowed to Latimer for 5,500 Regals. - Some communication with House Morthaal. Faulkner - 10,000 troops sent to Delmotte - Pay Humaira Reinard 2,500 Regals. Typhonus - Send 500 Regals from Reginald Typhonus to Eleonora du Kirsch. Howlester - Pay 30,000 Regals to Viduggla - Pay 1,000 Regals to Vulmar Faulkner. - Pay 500 Regals to Julius Peirgarten. Peirgarten - Sends the 30,000 standing army with Eddair Mac Conall at the head, supported by Rodrigo Peirgarten, Theopold Kreiburg and Leon Claudio, along with 10,000 attached Kreiburg troops to try and cleanse the Wardens out of the Peirgarten lands. Starting from the capital, they begin a "Execute them all, regardless if they surrender or not" campaign after they reject the last offer of House Peirgarten to "surrender themselves to Peirgarten Authority and enter the Countess's service (as servants or troops? not clear)". This slaughter-march however ceases at Elane, when it becomes clear that the country is rapidly descending into civil war, with hordes of Wardens funneling from Genevaud into Peirgarten lands, the Vicieux declaring an independence war. - The Bracer of Lolanc-Athal is bought for 50,000 Regals by a wealthy Altalar in the Altalar homelands. - 2,000 Regals are paid to Eddair Mac Conall Vicieux - Julius Peirgarten sends 30,000 Regals to start a mass-campaign to convince Lavoyare and Meuberge to become disloyal to House Peirgarten. Julius proclaims her cousin as a cruel tyrant prone to atrocities with her husband, to liberate the land of his cousin's rule, while proclaiming himself the Liberator of Lorenthaus. Coupled with Peirgarten's slaughter campaign, and how repugnant this is to the Ithanian pacifist movement, and with the fact that Vicieux controls the rest of the Ithanian provinces, these two provinces do not only become disloyal to Peirgarten, they directly join Vicieux. - The Feudal Council is summoned by Maximillian Black and Violetta Howlester who use their Diplomacy to point to mismanagement of the Wardens and the butchering of people, proclaiming that this will befall Vicieux if the Feudal Council does not support mobilization. The Feudal Council is convinced with Black support, believing that House Black will also support the independence war, as well as Julius's work on Meuberge and Lavoyare to mobilize 100% of the forces. - 20,000 Regals are sent to Genevaud, encouraging and funelling the Wardens from these lands to Peirgarten lands to attack Peirgarten's army. This coupled with von Drachenburg and Black essentially pushing the Wardens back into Genevaud, and Kreiburg being involved with the Peirgarten army, the anti-Kreiburg sentimented Wardens spill into Peirgarten lands and start attacking Peirgarten garrisons all over the place. The questions remains however, whether this decision will bite Peirgarten in the long run, as Peirgarten is quickly becoming the largest congestion of Wardens in the Empire. Latimer - Latimer attempts to court the Wardens to expel funny looking races and aberrants from the provinces of Ibilisi, Trabzon and Verkilis, and give the land to the Wardens. The Wardens are a hair's lenght away from accepting, until Latimer expands that they should also fight in the war and apologize to the church. This is when the proposal is strongly declined, because it underpins another ignorant Noble unaware that they are treating with disenfranchised poor people who are venting out their anger on the easiest target, but aren't interested in becoming a cheap military mobilization force for the local ruler. The proposal from Latimer nearly solved the Warden problems in their lands, because it adequately addressed the financial distitution of their ranks, but then tried to extract too much advantage from a delicate situation, after which the deal fell flat. - 2,000 Latimer troops + 3,000 Lok-Guthrain troops guard Athos to prevent Warden entry. Other Latimer troops cannot move because the Harhold blockade is still up. - Organizations inside Latimer lands cannot properly poll the size of the Wardens as many of them blend into the normal population. - 11 ships are borrowed to the state. - 5,500 Regals are sent to Lok-Guthrain. - 2,000 Regals are sent to Wilvamair Arnyn. - Latimer leads a 12 ship fleet to Hadar along with another fleet led by Reginald Typhonus's 12 ships to support to seek and destroy any Kathar fleets they can find. This fleet sails around for a while, unable to actually find a Kathar fleet, but are eventually caught off guard by a massive Sendrassian fleet that intercepts them with faster smaller and more numerous gunboats. Initially the naval battle seems to be in the advantage of the Regalian fleets, until the same flying serpents Klaus Typhonus witnessed descend from the clouds and leave the Regalians defenceless as they swoop down and start slicing through the ropes and rigs of the ships. To make matters worse, a massive dragon-like bone creature with bones held together by strips of red and black bindings ascends from the water, much larger even than the Dread and Imperial Dragons, causing a clear reaction in Susan Burch's Soul Battery identifying it as a genuine Dragon. It spews massive waves of noxious acid over the ships. One ship gets covered so badly the whole ship disintegrates, and in the terror, two other ships clash into each other while trying to get out of the way. 2 Latimer ships sink, while 2 von Drachenburg ships sinks, before the fleet can retreat in a disorderly fashion. Sorenvik - 5,000 Regals are spent on expanding roads, lining up a direct route between the capital of Frederike and the holes in Hadrian's Mountains leading into Calemberg, causing clear outrage in the Calemberg Feudal Council that Sorenvik is preparing for an invasion to march troops along that road. - 10,000 Regals are spent from the NDF to repair Ustyeurt oconomic damage but not much was damaged, so the money just disappears somewhere in corrupt officials who report damage where there is none. Hexenblood - 1 Airship is purchased for 25,000 - While there are no Wardens present yet, the Feudal Council approves a preliminary mobilization of 10,000 troops. - 5,000 troops are sent to the Avalorn Army. - 20,000 Regals are used to try and recruit the Poppy's Wall into fighting the Wardens. The locals however are content to remain where they are, awaiting the arrival of the Wardens, and as such, this investment defaults to not working. Kreiburg - 5 ships patrol Ustyeurt coasts. - 10,000 troops join up with the Peirgarten Army. - Lazarus Lupenzi, Kasamir Arcleht, Philippe du Langelier, Zelgius Pavise, Natalia Ombre, Seraphie Lupenzi, Wasa Singhateh, Arien Pavise, Wilvamair Arnyn and Nymvrae Helvath are sent to Lorenthaus and specifically told not to use any magical stuff, to aid the fight against the Wardens. Nym'vrae on account of having Exist mutations that are super obvious however (such as hair and clothing that occasionally ignores gravity and eyes that look like starry night skies), is immediately seen as an aberrant in service of Rodrigo Peirgarten, which causes outrage among the Feudal Council, harkening back to the earlier rumor that circulated that Rodrigo was looking for a female aberrant house servant. Black - Black's Feudal Council agrees a 20,000 troop mobilization. - House Black gives Magic users free rights to use all forms of Magic on the Wardens. This causes a sudden explosion of Fleur d'Magi in the area that use all kinds of Magics to blow up, incinerate, dissipate or otherwise delete the Wardens in Black lands. The 10,000 standing army is then sent to "escort" the Wardens back to Genevaud, which given the Covenants blasting the Wardens, rushes them back to Genevaud. - 15 ships are dedicated to the Regalian State. Slumberwood - 10,000 Regals are sent to Hexenblood lands to "invite" the Poppy's Wall to their lands, and a bunch of them get on board and sail off into the far east to start spreading their anti-warden and liberal sentiments in the region of Barvinda, which starts converting the locals (forcibly and non forcibly). - Spend 15,000 to further drive anti-dragon and anti-religious sentiment in Barvinda. - The Feudal Council agrees to mobilize 15,000 troops to fight the Wardens. Goretaan - Peace treaty is agreed upon between the Url and the Ailor. - Macdannogh, Hardowayle, Carbridges remain Ailor ONLY. Url are not allowed in. - Carnowayle, Atherdin remain Url ONLY. Ailor only allowed in on approved pilgrimage to Old Pagan sites. - Ultainiss is an Ailor province with Url minority. - Wickthur is an Url province with Ailor minority. - Dundarne is an Ailor ONLY province. - Symbiosis is only permitted in Url only provinces, and only with full consent in minority provinces, while completely outlawed in Ailor only provinces. This creates a strained if somewhat stable peace agreement that lasts for now, with Clannadh-Alba split halfway for each race. von Drachenburg/Chancellor - 10 Ships are sent to the State Fleet. - Airship is borrowed to Klaus Typhonus. - 10,000 Regals from von Drachenburg to State coffers. - 10,000 Drachenburg troops gently pressure the Wardens to not enter their lands by the Black border to funnel them to Genevaud. Avalorn - Avaineiral Rilynnlues si sent on a horse on a really-really long trek through Hyarroc. He will come back next week. (but can still rp in Regalia). - Cinna Eledhwen leads 10,000 Avalorn and 5,000 Triege troops and 5,000 Hexenblood troops to cleanse the wardens from Dinnan. - 20 ships borrowed to the State. Financial Minister Maximillian Black - Pay Szofia Kovacmann 2,500 Regals. - Pay Eleonora du Kirsch 2,500 Regals. - Pay 20,000 Regals to the Foreign Minister Klaus Typhonus (put on Imperial Court page). von Duerr - Pay 5,000 Regals to Coren Isil. Golden Triumvirate - Buy 1 ship for 10,000 Regals - House de Ortiz is now Golden Triumvirate's representative and public face. Reinard - 40,000 Regals, Oosteyn and Westerhal are sent to Harhold. - Magic is clarified Legal in Barlowe. - All Magic laws are expanded to other lands. Klaus Typhonus - Klaus's group of Malruthiia Merethyl, Novellia Reinard, Haeddi Harhold are sent on an airship to try and treat with what the people think is the Maraya Home Swarm. Upon reaching closer, loud crystalline resonant noises are heard, before lights flicker through the clouds and hails of spike-like crystals embed into the hull of the airship, eventually piling up to such an extent that the bouyancy of the ship starts failing, and it slowly floats down where it touches down gracefully and leaves no permanent damage to the ship or the people on it, besides the terrifying hail of crystal spikes that turned one side of the airship into a porcupine. What is presumed to be the Home Swarm is clearly not interested in talking, or saw this airship approach as hostile, and soon after, the lights and the clouds seem to raise up further into the sky, until they can no longer be tracked. Viduggla - Galejin Veretan is paid 2,000 Regals. - Rolf av Drixagh is paid 1,000 Regals. - 15,000 Regals are sent to anti-Warden propaganda in Vladno lands, which is moderately effective, but if every province in Calemberg starts radiating Warden pressure, this propaganda will likely be for naught, so its effect depends on Typhonus. Harhold - Blockade on Kintyr remains. - Army in Vlissinghelm protects against the Covenants spread, but are unable to prevent their spread in adjecent provinces. - Somnes and Cherf are ceded to Reinard.
