[DragonRider]

Yup, after years of stalemates, our war has finally reached the only possible conclusion: full scale nuclear and biological warfare. Soon the entire eastern continent will be an uninhabitable, smoking, disease-ridden crater and we'll both lose all our troops to upkeep.

The fact that you, as a blood nation, are far better-prepared to weather such a post-apocalyptic scenario than I has not escaped my notice, but I'm running out of ideas over here. (I was a little disappointed that you had a dome up...I was curious about whether two spells would have obliterated approximately 75% or 100% of your mages, based on the description.)

I always assumed you had the Chalice. When I finally poked my nose into Construction 8 (very late; I was waylaid by a lot of other necessities), basically everything was predictably gone and I assumed that you probably had all of it, since at the time you'd shown absolutely no evidence of having done any evocation, conjuration, or blood research but a great deal of evidence of using magically-equipped thugs. Bandar Log can forge it natively and spent most of the game not at war with anybody, so they seem like the most likely culprits.

Also, I think it's totally awesome how entering the arena death match resulted in my awesome and moderately expensive Serpent Kris/Lucky Coin combo being lost to the void forever and replaced with a piece of junk two-handed trident with no special attributes apart from being unremovable. I thought CBM replaced that thing with a helmet or something. EDIT: Actually the equipment just got moved to my lab. But that Ember Lord is still pretty much ruined.