Many of the leading alliances are at war with a dead alliance, called Medieval Knights. I think that they would be an interesting element in my story, but I don't know enough about them. Three stars for guessing what I want to know 

I'll say anyway. I'd like to know who was involved, who was the main protaganist, how did it start, what was the diplomatic efforts, how did it end....

 

Several days later, Tubana attacked me with no provocation on my part.  With that, the officers I was working with to salvage an alliance from MK membership decided unanimously that Tubana was a clear and present danger to our safety and well-being.  At the same time, Dlord was moving much too slow in eliminating Tubana (too few T2 siege in their siege armies), so we decided to assist Dlord in removing Tubana as a common threat to each of us. 

 

MK reformed as Phoenix (PX) which razed only 1 of Tubana's cities.  Dlord took care of the rest including the final Tubana city standing.

 

Tubana created an alt and joined Crow.  However, he abandoned that alt fairly early.

 

The last word I received from Tubana was "You suck."  That is verbatim.

 

All of the alliance leaders had designated Bel as the negotiator and each tolf me that they would abide by any agreement Bel would make with me.  Shortly after Tubana was resolved, Ni breached the peace agreement negotiated between Belargyle and me.   First, by sneak attacking Rupe and destroying all of Rupe's armies while he was asleep.  And then a few days later by sending 19 armies into my cities and demanding my head.  None of the alliances that had joined with Dlord altered their diplomatic stance with Ni and remained Confed/NAP with Ni in support of Ni's double-cross of me while leaving a Ni army occupying a prime siege square adjacent to one of my cities.  PX officers were hesitant to rally to my defense, all of us having had our fill of near-constant Illy war for over 3 months.

 

I put my cities into hibernation and left Illy.

 

PX dissolved and merged into Tranquil Vision within a couple of weeks after I departed Illy.

 

For the record:

 

Yes, when I returned to Illy, H? had canceled its Confed with Ni.  But not while I was under attack from Ni AFTER peace had been agreed to.  At that time, H? remained Confed with Ni.  Further, Bel reported that H? would not intervene.  Bel talked about support, but no armies moved and Dlord retained its NAP w/ Ni which made Bel's words sound hollow.

 

The effect of that was H? and Dlord stood behind Ni in its unprovoked breach of the peace agreement that lasted 10 days.

 

Anyhooo...ancient history.  :)

 Shortly yes confederation is alliance between two alliances.  Escrow is money that alliance can pay to to the other alliance for forming pact, peace, confederation, Non-aggression pact for example .

Actually, I was involved in the Mal Motshans- I know how it's happened, more or less. The Knight who say Ni merged into TMM, who decided that they were going to take Mal Motsha by force. They tried to force US into joining TMM- DB fought them. T? members were treated the same way; everyone valiantly chose to stand up to them.

 

A couple of weeks after that, MK began aiding WC against Ni/H?.  No one could ever explain to me what the strategy was for that campaign.  It appeared futile from the outset and, ultimately, was fatal for many in WC.

 

WC, however, did have a history with Butler/Nige/Juno that was never disclosed to SWQ at large.  The result was that many SWQ players received WC attacks and Butler/Nige/Juno would never render assistance to his membership, though he frequently requested assistance for himself.

 

While I was away from Illy, Ni attacked VIC and sieged Kaboom.  Ni's siege was destroyed by VIC with their allies, but Ni remained intact.

 

When the city move was announced, the accounts played by Butler/Nige created a new alliance, TMM, and left Ni in the hands of several small players.  While many alliances were willing to let Nige/Butler/Etc. and TMM remain viable with a few large cities, a few of us siezed the opportunity of a severely weakened TMM to finish off the accounts.  All accounts were reduced to a single new city which was then razed and player relocation was achieved for all TMM accounts.