I still don't quite understand why I'm percieved as the biggest threat in the game (or even the biggest nation) right now...

From what I can see of Maverni alone, his empire spans from the Southwest edge of the world at 112, to where he's kicking the hell out of lanka in the vicinity of 165. Now, unless he has the thinnest empire in the history of Dominions, he must have a lot of teritory in between and to the South of those two pronvinces: that's a big empire!

Maverni, no offense, I'm just trying to deflect so much flak that I've been getting by stating the facts as I see them. You or whoever is welcome to present an analysis of how big my empire is (not small, I admit) but I just want people to acknowledge the facts instead of falling for all of this vague speculation.

As for the he-said/he-said that's going on, let's just keep in mind that in every war we have had the same dynamic: everyone claims their enemy is an agressor or threat in some way.