Grandpa... tell us about the war

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   Wow.  What a condescending load of crap.
First of all, omitting alliance names doesn't really mean anything if you're just going to specifically identify them all anyway.  And more convenient secret alliances that you're going to use to justify your actions after the fact.  Fun.

In the spirit of trying to get this thread back on track, I'll give an outline of how I came to be in this war.  Honored, I know you've spent a long time cultivating that impressive ego of yours, so you might not want to read this.  Consider yourself warned.

It had nothing to do with Harmless?.  

I spend my early alliance life in an alliance called the Order of Consequence.  It would eventually collapse due to internal drama, and mostly migrate to Amicitia, which would dissolve for much the same reason, with a dose of inactivity thrown in.  Still, I made a lot of friends in these alliances, and many Amicitia members ended up in either House of Plantagenet(PLAN), where I ended up, or in Insane Knight(BANE). 

BANE was(and is) an innovative alliance in many ways, but mainly in that they are a mercenary alliance, they fought for gold.  This had at the time always been contained to assistance in clearing inactives and tournaments, basically professionalization of the activities even the most peaceful alliance engages in.  Unfortunately for BANE, this was Heresy(tm).  Night Crusaders would strike at them under cover of a tournament, using a pretext so weak as to be farcical.    

Would I make myself a Heretic(tm)?  Was I already?  These where my friends that had just been attacked, and I knew may of them had a lot in common with me.  

The second concern growing in my thoughts was the Darkstar Dominion.  The largest militant bloc in the game, they where a force expanding in influence and belligerence every day.  The Dominion threw their weight around in ways Consone and Crows would never have imagined, eventually culminating in an unproved attack by one of their member alliances on my own alliance, PLAN.  Backed up with the threat of attack by the Dominion and H?, should anyone come to our assistance.  Of course we knew our allies wouldn't be any match for such powers, and asked them all to stay out.  I know it may sound like I'm trying to make us look noble and selfless here, I assure you that isn't the case.  The math would simply never have worked in our favor.  So we took some damage, fought as best we could, and eventually made a barely tolerable peace with our attackers so they could prepare to fight their new war.  That would be the current one.  

NC, it turned out, had found a few more Heretics(tm) than they could handle, and the Dominion was dutifully riding in to bail them out.  I think it goes without saying at this point I would have preferred to see them lose, but more to the point, could I stand to see them win?  To come out of another war with even more arrogance and aggression, and even less to hold them in check?  

No.

And that is the story of how I found myself in the first non-neutral alliance of my Illyrian life, with Eagle's Eyrie(Who're great!), at war with Harmless? only by virtue of their deliberate decision to aid these factions who embodied all they claimed to oppose.  So maybe, when you're trying to figure out how you got here, don't look at the people who wouldn't support you, look at who you continued to support.  