I'm glad you didn't drop out.
I was a bit worried that I'd have to fight AI again.
Sorry that I didn't extend the turn I came back only after hosting.
Some notes on the situation from my view:
Sauromatia controls a large part of the north undisputed - much more lands than Marverni. While they claim to be peaceful they are delving deeply into dark sorcery. They are amassing Heliophagi probably also Tartarians.
Who can name all the horrors they will unleash upon the world once they have finished Agartha and Abysia?
We only hope to cleanse the world through the light of the northern star. And we must act now before the Agarthans and Abysians go extinct.
Of course it's about saving the virgins, too!
(Damn now I did the propaganda after all...
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