On a brighter note, there was some ambiguously good news that the Coughing Plague was finally gone and even the Forluc were keeping their own outbreak of disease under control, keeping it from spreading northwards into the rest of the Arthwyd Empire.
1) Some basic trade, done at Caermyr or by proxies. No Arthwydish going into the Cursed Forest. I haven't giving it much thought beyond the Arthwyd and Caradysh have done general trading with each other and there isn't anything especially to the trade itself, just that it is the Arthwyd and Caradysh doing it despite the prejudices of the former. The trade itself is the standard trade that I don't cover in detail because it is below the abstraction of detail that I track.@Oshha
1. What did Main Trade Expedition (Caradysh) actually do? Send a caravan over to the Cursed Forest? Shipped goods over to Caermyr for the Caradysh to pick up? And what did we trade? My guess is bronze weapons since that's what we sold to their vassals when we sent Trade Expeditions to them, but I'm curious if we instead gave them other stuff. And what did we get from them in return?
2. Our choice to allow the Caradysh free passage in exchange for the heartlands was supposed to give us increased Forlucan opinion, but right now it's at 6.5, just like it was last turn. (Also, I'd like to suggest that the net total opinion gain with the Forluc - after counting the initial loss and the gain - should be higher than where it all started, because at the end of the day, we get them back their heartlands without them having to spend any men or resources. (They also wouldn't have been able to do it at all because of their plague.))
3. Despite the Main Trade Expedition, our relationship with the Caradysh hasn't improved at all and it doesn't look like we got any new information on them at all, even though gaining information is one of the results of that action.
Forden = Vassal/Low
-Your Opinion 6/10
-Their Opinion = 8/10
Forluc = Vassal/Low
-Your Opinion 6.5/10
-Their Opinion = 8.5/10
3) You failed the roll to improve opinion due to malus from Arthwydish biases against undead. Meanwhile you did gain information, which was more accurate info about how the Caradysh-Nersondur fighting is going alongside the Arthwyd gaining some knowledge of Forester customs due to regular trading with each other.Forden = Vassal/Very Low
-Your Opinion 6/10
-Their Opinion = 9/10
Forluc = Vassal/Very Low
-Your Opinion 6.5/10
-Their Opinion = 9.5/10
Huh, would of thought they'd be a bit more upset about that.Purists (1.3/10) = Goals: No barbarians and their ways, Mood: Pleased, Ability: Diplo- per 2 Faction Power, Objective: Build 1 Wall within 1 Turns, Success/Failure: Temp Econ+/-
My mistake there. I accidentally looked at Your Opinion instead of Their Opinion to see the changes.2) It has changed and is higher than where it started off at. You have gained one point with both the Forluc and the Forden.
My mistake there. I accidentally looked at Your Opinion instead of Their Opinion to see the changes.
Yeah, never thought there'd be a change of Arthwydish views of the Forluc, was just looking at the wrong values to see if Forlucan opinion of the Arthwyd changed.Your opinion of them is not changing over this affair except they had pushed back against Arthwydish authority, in which case it would have gone down.
I still want to drive away the Nersondur and working with the Caradysh against slavers will improve our opinion of them and should help stop dedicated xenophobes from gathering and organising, since that's now a thing going on.
I don't think your plan to diminish the power of xenophobes by going to war with another civilisation will work out exactly as fruitfully as you hope.[X][MAIN] Academy
[X][MAIN] Wage War = Nersondur
[X][MAIN] Expand Econ.
I still want to drive away the Nersondur and working with the Caradysh against slavers will improve our opinion of them and should help stop dedicated xenophobes from gathering and organising, since that's now a thing going on.
My plan isn't to deminish the xenophobes, its still to get rid of the Nersondur and learn how to fight properly, I mention the xenophobes because they have started behaving problematically specifically over the undead freedom of movement and there is almost nothing we can do about it.I don't think your plan to diminish the power of xenophobes by going to war with another civilisation will work out exactly as fruitfully as you hope.
Its gunna be very bloody and im not sure our Eco can support support a slog like that.My plan isn't to deminish the xenophobes, its still to get rid of the Nersondur and learn how to fight properly, I mention the xenophobes because they have started behaving problematically specifically over the undead freedom of movement and there is almost nothing we can do about it.