[Baalz]

The Eastern Blood Wars are starting to heat up. The giants have learned a great respect for our holy warriors, and likewise we have learned the power of their ally’s communions. We both consolidate briefly, fearful to tread too aggressively into our opponent’s land as we have each had dire results with such aggressions in the past. We both however have been working on new plans in an attempt to unbalance each other.

Hearing Angerboda’s brash claims to have her own allies in the lower planes, I have ordered spies to report on the giant’s activities. Our scouts have mapped out their lands, and report that there is indeed a portal open in the giant’s capitol providence through which fiends enter the world. This has enraged the bloody god, though it should not be surprising that some of the weaker enemies of our demonic allies choose to accept the thin blood offerings of the giants. The weaker fiends are not picky. I have ordered a cabal of priest kings to drown this offending province in a sea of toads, making productivity impossible. Sadly this has not stopped the summoning of fiends, but it has sown disease amongst the conjurors and made it impossible to recruit new conjurors. I have ordered that the cabal redouble their efforts and drown every fortress in the giant’s lands under a mountain of rotting toads. There shall be no further mage reinforcements for our adversaries.

As the rest of our sorcerers turn their attention to summoning a force with which to invade the giants land for once and all, our scouts report dire tidings just east of our border. A huge army of fearsome undead marches on us, supported by a handful of fiends, presumably the fruit of the giant’s alliance with the weak-blood demons. Not the ordinary shuffling longdead, nor even their giantish counterparts, but undead horsemen and rotting, animated elephant carcasses. Presumably the remaining amazons will support this wall of rotting flesh with arcane might in a fearsome attempt to once again gain a toehold in our proud nation’s lands.

I have ordered our border guards pulled back, this will not be a fight that jaguar warriors can win. I have also ordered some raiding forces forward to invade the giant’s lands away from their large army. They cannot hope to conquer our lands by taking one province for every two of theirs which are taken, and they dare not split up the lumbering mass of their army. Come forward into the killing lands with your menagerie of monsters if you dare, Angerboda. You will not find the price of Mictlan lands cheap and I am curious to find if my counter to your undead will be as effective as I hope.