These messages were broadcasted to all of Plergoth, which revealed reasons behind Khton's recent actions of hostilities toward Plergoth:
Roleplay from Geoff (58 minutes ago)
Message sent to the Rulers of this world (21 recipients)
Khthon, as a realm, had to make a choice. A choice that will forever change the course of how it is viewed by its neighbors and the continent as a whole.
Khthon has done its best to remain neutral in conflicts, although we have always had a preference for our nearest allies. During wars, we'd happily venture into neighboring lands to weed out undead and monsters from Avalon, Ashborn, Old Grehk, Fronen, but mostly Plergoth. We enjoy this life, and it's all we ever wanted.
Plergoth, over the course of the last several months, has had an on-again, off-again plan to take back the lands inhabited by Khthon and its heroes. At first, the plan was stopped by Enweil's involvement in the Plergoth-Mesh war. Second was the secession of Reeds and the creation of Vlaanderen Khthon's heroes have spent many tireless nights awake, fearing for when the next ruler tells us to watch our backs against our southern allies.
Khthon cannot continue our altruistic ways until we feel safe in our borders. We realize this will never end until we are strong enough that Plergoth won't have casual conversation about our demise. That is why we've decided it is in our best interest, and the best interest of all our neighbors, to balance the sides and emerge from being a fledgeling realm to a realm on equal footing with Plergoth. This is why we must declare war.
Khthon isn't after the annihilation of Plergoth. We simply realize that our survival depends on our strength in relation to them. This is why we must be proactive to claim regions from Plergoth. It was apparent when Plergoth demanded the return of Tindle that we must act. I hereby declare that Khthon will cease military action against Plergoth entirely when Khthon's region count equals that of Plergoth, whatever that number ends up being.
If this forever damages the relationship between Khthon and Plergoth, then it is for the greater good. Khthon must be allowed to feel autonomous - our choices must be our own. We must be able to live without conditions attached or threats levied. No realm should live in fear, just as no peasants should live in fear from monsters and undead.
Sir Geoff
Chancellor of Khthon, Marshal of the Khthon Royal Knights Chancellor Artevan responded with this: Letter from Artevan
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I do wish to answer Geoff's charges. I have told him and Elias repeatedly, at no time during my tenure with this council was any plans of attack considered regarding Kthon. In fact we did wish to try and repair our relationship, even to this point. While Geoff claims we had an on again, off again plan, the facts of the matter are these:
~Kthon ransacked and looted one of the temples of Omniovism, the chief religion of Plergoth, and kept it's gold for themselves.
~Kthon knowingly sent a priest into Tindle, a realm of Plergoth to sow sedition and distrust with it's people.
~When the realm went rogue they imeediately moved in and completed aone day take over, while still Allies of our realm.
~They moved through our lands without permission on multiple occasions to attack our army in Haffemet in conjunction with the terrorist nation of Vlaanderen
I have been Chancellor just over 24 hours but one of my first contacts was to discuss with Geoff healing thsi rift. His answer was he wanted us to give more regions to him and the terrorists and then broker an Alliance. He claims he wants to not live in fear, what he clearly wants is to expand his realm at the cost of my people.
Kthon can choose to believe and think what they want, but the facts are irrefutable. Plergoth in now way at any time acted against Kthon. In the meatime they did knowingly make overt acts of war against us, many of which were done with relationship still at Allies.
If this is the path they choose to go down, then that is their choice. Not ours.
Sir Artevan
To these issues brought up by Chancellor Artevan, Chancellor Geoff replied:
I'll address the issues, but I want to make one thing perfectly clear - A federation does not equal autonomy. We aren't willing to accept 'federate or be destroyed' as an option. We also aren't willing to change who we are to fit the mold of Plergoth. When we were threatened by Al, we were suspicious. When we were threatened by Marcus Antonus, we had had enough.
Now, on to those issues:
~Kthon ransacked and looted one of the temples of Omniovism, the chief religion of Plergoth, and kept it's gold for themselves.
An opportunity was given by my duke to remove it peaceably, but it went unanswered. As the ruling duke, it is his option which temples exist in the region. I stand by his decision. He did all he can do (OOC: Within game mechanics) to remove the temple, and that was his only option.
~Kthon knowingly sent a priest into Tindle, a realm of Plergoth to sow sedition and distrust with it's people.
I did not send any priest anywhere. Khthon priests are allowed to operate on their own, and spread their religion as they choose. There is no state-sponsored religion. Plergoth has one and that's fine for them, but it's not what we're about. If we had Omnivorist priests in Khthon, the same freedom would be given to them.
~When the realm went rogue they imeediately moved in and completed aone day take over, while still Allies of our realm.
Yes, we did this. The people were being abused, we took them under our wing, blah blah blah. The rulers have all heard this before, so I'll spare them from hearing it again.
~They moved through our lands without permission on multiple occasions to attack our army in Haffemet in conjunction with the terrorist nation of Vlaanderen
I don't know of all these occasions you speak of, but we had moved to Haffemet once to break a brutal takeover of the region. Brutal takeovers are unacceptable to us, and we moved to protect the people. You'll notice Khthon troops fought against Plergoth when they were in battle against Vlaanderen peasants.
In summary, we don't like abuse towards peasants, we don't like threats, and we're not going to let it happen anymore.
Sir Geoff
Chancellor of Khthon, Marshal of the Khthon Royal Knights
After these messages, Avalon and Khton once more attacked Weghie, defeating the 2000 CS forces of Plergoth with 4000 CS. This battle resulted to the wounding of one of Plergoth's knights. To what measures will Khton stoop to gain "autonomous recognition"?
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