>>6305729>>6305770(Because claims are apparently 8 tiles now)
The ambitions of the Conquering School accidentally runs wild, and while they lack the ships to actually carry everyone that wanted to settle the formerly Adenic lands, traveling to "vanquish the Dark" isn't exactly troublesome for the Slaugish herders. North, the temples to Zas sponsors an expedition to at last claim a source of the southern rivers, and last of the Druid's eastward jungles.
>Action 1: Surround the An'naud, Settle the Vanguard Against Its Heart! (Expand)>Action 2: Let Us Be Many, Let Us Be Whole. (Expand)Amongst the Khurnaire, it can be said that the Mystery Delving Company Khurnaire is one who is most material, most worldly. They are apathetic, uncaring of spirits, and take that principle as their guiding star. They do not care for the matters of the Manu pretender, not for whatever the Lord Mana is. It is with this most curious of blessings that they are the first to realize the absurd disaster in the making that the Conquering School's plot would bring.
>Action 3: Establish Church of Marlene in the Adenic An'naud BorderlandsThey would've preferred establishing some sort of administrative centre, a major and central institution to manage the Khurnaire's far-off holdings (and allow them to funnel in more cash without anyone else knowing), but they fear that it might be too elaborate for the villeins. What they arrive too though, are temples. Putting one of Luxor's here would immediately incite a war against the Adenai, no go there. One of Manu's? Exactly the same outcome as Luxor's but with different reasons. The Zas, if he had any reach here, he is a reasonable deity, but the Zas claims not the ocean, and so it is untenable. Marlene, they couldn't do worse, and they don't have the time to forge a spirit exactly for this, so Marlene will do. There're traces of it you know. An'naud once was a city meant to venerate Nature, if you view it correctly. Marlene has a hold here, despite the ignorance of everyone else. Perhaps, that's enough Mystery to delve into.
