[Omnirizon]

There's at least a defacto Mictlan-Oceania alliance. This current defeat only reinforces my assertions of early: R'yleh is not the threat that Oceania and Mictlan want the world to believe it is. R'yleh is a paper tiger at best, and a complete Oceania-fabrication at worst. I'd vouch for the latter.

Mictlan is the real threat here and Shinuyama and R'yleh will be fighting a losing war if the rest of the world doesn't join in against them. Don't let their "we only want balance" pandering fool you. Mictlan has been maneuvering to maintain their power while creating distractions from it for a year now. They were very eager to demonize R'yleh and had been planning to invade for a long time. The only reason they've pulled that punch is because they realized Shinuyama was aiming for a chink in their armor by not playing along. Had Shinuyama chosen go with the group and invade R'yleh instead then we'd be hearing a very different story from Mictlan.