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small correction: almost all of the league is on the Corinite side, i typed that part when i was about to go to eep last night and didn't proofread...

Interlopers in Dalaire included Exwes, the Emperor's close ally, and Neckliffe, an ally of Lorent. With Lorent declaring for the Adenics early in the formation of the league, Temar II found himself with an opportunity to leverage the chaos on the continent for gains in the colonies. As a bonus, the corinite zealots that had occupied his armies for 30 years now sought fit to go die for some war halfway across the contient - all while defending his lands from any potential incursions by the other three blocs.

This put Queen Anna Gerwick of Gawed in an uncomfortable position. Temar II had weathered her attempt to raise a coalition and declared the trolls who'd recently vultured upon the corpse of the Reach Federation under Grombari protection, preventing her expansion into the Serpentshead. Her endless armies could certainly hold off the half-orc kingdom's advances - a century of drilling and the Alenic fighting spirit would see to that. But holding off half a continent's worth of troops while being menaced from the north? The prospect was almost as unflattering as joining Lorent's side. Yet if she did nothing, the orcs would be free to continue their Aelantiric adventures, something Anna had spent her entire reign containing as much as she could by forcing them to commit the grand bulk of Grombari armies to the mainland.