Regalia

• House Vehnreniirn sends large groups of Kathar from their region in the Archipelago in the west to Drixagh, sprinkled between Nordhjem, Sorenvik and Viduggla lands, causing immediate social unrest as non-Ailor non-Old Gods immigrants start settling and practicing Void Worship. With the recent scare of Power Arken worship among Ruttgher immigrants, the local (Unionist) Barons raise the alarm bells that this is a concerning development that begs some response from the Nobles, because Unionist missionaries are banned from the north, but these Kathar are /very/ intent on teaching the Velheim people around them the benefits of Void Worship.

Somnery:

• Wilvamair Arnyn and Magnus Rashida somnery their way around. Wilvamair also tries to stay in oblique sight of Noor Kade as much as he can, while retaining court respectability. At first this does not work, but eventually Noor whispers something to a nearby court lady, the Baroness of Mollatreux, who does eventually approach Wilvamair and tells him that the Princess has two hobbies, and that the Knight Arnyn might be able to help her with both, if he would be so inclined. She asks that Wilvamair acquire "one metal for each the four corners of the wind, and then one item that he thinks has meaning to him, and one item that he think could have meaning to Noor, and to deliver them to the Palace, and that there would be something in it for him.
• Other Somnery stuff is on the Diet thread: https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/drixagh-diet-status.100857/
• Tujia Nordhjem announces her conversion to Dogmatic Unionism, and immediately cancels all bans on Unionist Missionaries who once again start flooding into her lands. The flip flopping immediately causes civil unrest, but because there was already Imperial Legions stationed in the lands, they are able to intercept any problems from spilling into violence. The migratory pull of Unionists from Nordhjem lands immediately ends, and reverses, with the migrants moving away from Dragic lands from Sorenvik and Viduggla lands, and instead moving to Nordhjem lands, while also accelerating the proces.

Carrhen:

• Howland von Schwarzkrau travels to Petrou's fleet to inquire with the officers, who verify that Avox Petrou was not with the fleet "the entire time"; because that would have implied that he wasn't able to issue orders over the New Silverwind region. In order for him to issue orders to this annexed realm, he would have had to be on land, and he was indeed on land. (this may be an ooc misunderstanding, if a fleet has passive orders, the "leader" is not ever really present, so for Avox to issue orders to his micro state, he would have to be on land). But the officers do say that while the claim he was on the ships the entire time is incorrect, they can verify that he was present around his officers the entire time, and that they can verify wherever he went in New Silverwind and the fleet and the ports, and never anywhere near the borders of those states north.
• The Siege of the Soren capital continues. The Legions are as of yet unable to breach the city walls, unlike Rutgher, where the internal chaos left the capital wide open.
• Howland, Carmen, Cadwyn, Wilvamair, Jugo, Andrei, Riften, Halston, Wynnstan and Humaira campaign to Carrhen to do Vampire hunting by landing in Serman. Serman is a wretched place, most of the villages they pass through are completely burned down with dead cattle in the fields rotting and some beggars in the streets. The capital is even worse off with most of defensive structures completely destroyed, not even by Regalia's hands because Regalia just walked in and captured it after the previous sacking armies pillaged the country. No Vampires are found anywhere in Serman. This group then also ventures into Milat and Utteran, where they equally find no Vampires. Despite Howland's "apologies after the fact", the reality that ten heavily armored Regalian knights just went on a strolling expedition past the borderlands without formal approval or ahead-notice following the alleged skirmish by Avox Petrou, escalates the situation to where both states are under the impression that they are now being scouted for invasion readiness. Both nations mobilize their armies and announce a common defense pact against Regalia, burning up social credit created by the Consul in recent months, with a demand delivered to Regalia for the immediate demilitarization of Serman and the removal of the naval blockade on all of Carrhen except Soren, otherwise both states (and their subsequent allies) will consider this an act of war by Regalia.
• Avox cancels the death-tax on the Soren refugees and starts importing food to feed the starving Soren, some of which does get eaten, but anything that is soft is immediately pelted back at anyone handing out the food with the common sentiment just being "let us out you rotting tyrant". There is no way these people will ever trust Regalians again given how much they were gaslit by the blockade the first time in Soren, and how much they have suffered since by Regalia's treatment. The rioting effectively continues though it has as of yet not become murderous.
• Viviwynne Guentyr continues to riot police and bring resources for rebuilding but it's just a drop in an ocean in terms of the severe extreme damage to the local country. Her investigation to the status of Serman's government is that there effectively is none. The King and the royal family is dead, all the knights and lords of the realm were slain when the state was invaded, and there is complete government anarchy.

Hadar

• Pendusta, Abigail and Alzaric enagage in espionage sabotage on the anti-triumvirate coalition of Digmaans, reducing their effectiveness in the civil war.
• Siralli, Roro, Loreanthel, Kelmeradryl travel to Hadar to meet with Cro-Droq to give him an extremely tacky gift that he nontheless accepts to give them exactly 10 minutes of his time. They inquire:
  • Comments about his life story: Saying there is very little to say. He was born to serve as a special type guard for one of the Digmaan who lives more on the main-land of Hyarroc to the west and has numerous red-eyed Slizzars in service. He was however born way smaller than the others, and so rejected from active service and just became a pitfighter instead.
  • He confirms he was born from an egg but refuses to elaborate further. He makes implications that it's possible he is some sort of homonculi, or born through some sort of Void ritual and that he's related to Armas but he also keeps insisting that Digmaan Cro-Ranawat is his father, who is the father of every Cro born like him.
  • He states the reason for his birth is already covered by question one.
  • He states he never cared for Void Worship and remarks that even though a bird shits birdpoop, the birdpoop isn't compared to a bird or reviewed in the scope of avian taxonomy. The point he is trying to make is that being a product of the Void does not mean you have to worship it, or even acknowledge it, just like how you can ignore your parents if you are born to your biological caretakers. He states he is atheist.
  • He permits them to take a blood sample, and further attempts to magically divine information about his result in nothing. It is definitely not related to an Arken, but he's also not quite just a Magical being. There is some faint residual Magic in him, but not in the way any Mage normally has, which is why it's so hard to figure out what the exact nature is without cutting him open. Which is obviously not an option.
  • On the way out they inquire to the alchemical serum used in the juara again, and both offers to buy and supervise research are rejected. The only thing they comment on is that it wouldn't work on someone other than Droq or those like him anyway, but that it's also Droq's own proprietary concoction and that he doesn't trust "Yaotl's boot lickers" - thinking they have loyalties and priorities beyond just playing nice with Yaotl because they think they have no other viable alternatives.

Couple of orders still due, which will be processed in the course of the week when I have more time.