Volstrostia wrote:The Hinterplace wrote:I do not like Skar, but I also do not hate him. Exceedingly few people have garnered my hatred and Skar was never and is not one of those people. I question his moral probity, I question his claim to a legacy he is tarnishing, and I question the foolish decisions he makes, that is why I have dubbed him the Pretender. I also disagree I have "raided" forum posts, as all of my posts have been on topic with the matter at hand.
I have been a Queen in my own time, I have been where Skar has been. I was a part of a region that leaned into Raiderdom after being beckoned by the Brotherhood of Malice, desiring the region to gain relevancy and interaction with the greater community. I have seen the seeds [deadname expunged] sows as they consolidate power in a puppet region. I know the path Kantrias has been set on by its masters and they will either be a puppet of the whims of the Raiderdom or will cast out from their newfound allies once they have finally had enough and stand up for themselves. I remember a better and greater Kantrias than this.
I suppose you would know plenty about being cast out from raiderdom. But let me take a break from the sniping and instead offer you some advice that I'm certain you'll ignore.
You and your newfound allies have a deeply poisonous habit of assuming everyone who refuses to cowtow to you is a "malice puppet" or is "being set on a dark path by its masters." While I appreciate the free rent that living in your head provides, you're doing yourselves a massive disservice by letting that belief paint your every interaction with any region that differs from your own views. Unlike your new allies-of-the-week, some regions, like Kantrias or BoM, are actually capable of finding common ground or being peaceable - nay, even cooperative - without being one and the same. In the same breath as you decry raiders for disregarding regional sovereignty, you then malign Kantrias's autonomy and its decision-making capacity. Perhaps if you were more receptive to regions with differing FA strategies, defenderdom might not be in the dire FA straits it now finds itself in.
Contrary to your claims, Kantrias seems to be flourishing under its new leadership (as evidenced by the fact that people, yourself included, are talking about it for the first time in however long) and doing just as well militarily - and if you disagree on that front, I'd love for you to count up how many times you were sent to the Rejected Realms trying, and failing, to liberate their latest excursion. If you believe that Kantrias as it is now is worse-off than it was under your reign, then the only explanation is that you feel Kantrias being dissolved entirely is the best possible outcome - and since, in that case, you clearly don't have Kantrian interests in mind, then why on earth should we listen to your opinions on it's health?
All I'm going to say is that these regions, like Kantrias, were specifically switcharoo'd by literal members of the Brotherhood of Malice who command their military or hold high positions in government. This isn't some regular Sunday region with a different political opinion, this is literally the case with Kantrias. The same fate nearly befell the Empire of Great Britain through the same avenues too (BoM members building up the military, getting comfy with the government, etc).
So this is literally the case this time.
