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The war continued without Vitelia. Portions of the Reich’s northern territories were now breaking away and driving off occupying garrisons, toppling Reich sponsored regimes, as the Emrean offensive forced the Reich back south, save for a few stranded islands that the Grossreich’s Northern Fleet fled to after the loss of the great northern island <span class="mu-i">Geant Solitaire</span> to the Revolution a year back. Feallin and Felbach newly emerged once again from the pages of history to Vitelia’s north- the latter country now on the border where so much vicious fighting had taken place, where you had been struck down. Already, furious diplomatic exchanges were being had with the fledgling Felbachr authority, despite there being multiple factions clawing for the former Imperial protectorate governor’s chambers. There was rumor that it might be time to occupy that territory, now that the Reich had vacated it, and that the country had slipped out of Imperial possessions…but the King condemned such rumors. Unrest followed- supposedly the most of it coming from the Gilician territories, in spite of the suffering they had undergone…or perhaps, exactly because of that.
An immediate expectation was that the north would be thrown into utter chaos. News was already coming out of territorial disputes and skirmishes between militias and armed forces of the small northern countries, resulting from the sudden absence of the Grossreich. There were stirrings in the east, too; the longtime maritime rival (of a friendlier sort) of Vitelia, Valsten, was undergoing great levels of unrest. News of foreign countries was much more readily printed and exchanged, discussed about. You and Leo talked about it easily- and Yena tried her best to keep up, though she had come from the mountains, where most cared little about the world beyond the peaks.
Leo said that this was an opportunity that was being passed up on by Vitelia’s authorities- not to conquer, as some rumbled they should, but to make new friends, new alliances. There was a power vacuum, and Vitelia was in a place to take advantage…possibly. Despite all the losses and the economic dysfunction, what better way to solve both?
>Diplomacy was best when backed up by force- why not use such force? Vitelia still had more than any of the disparate north, after all…that’s what you would do.
>You had to agree with Leo. All of Vitelia’s friends were far off in the war. Imagine how things would have gone if this happened before? Perhaps a ceasefire wasn’t the best idea now after all, considering…
>Vitelia was in a poor position to do anything but lick its wounds. You had to agree with the King- before you could make any new friends or enemies, Vitelia had to be repaired. Let the North squabble while you enjoyed some peace.
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