[Zenzei]

This turn Ulm managed to capture 5 provinces from Mictlan, which is not bad but certainly isn't good enough either because Mictlan took more than 5 provinces from Patala. In addition to that, Patala's situation is already dire because the proud warriors of monkey people can't match the dukes of hell in personal combat and therefore vast majority of Patala's armies are decimated after two turns of war. It remains to be seen if Patala's powerful mages can make the difference. It's possible that damage has already been done though.

I also failed to kill Ethanim with my pretender, which I thought would be a cakewalk because the archdevil and my pretender had almost exactly same stats but I had significantly more HP and soul vortex on my combatant. All in all, I'd say Mictlan won the first round pretty clearly.