Potential Peace Talks?

I have followed with some interest the views and opinions of the great and the good on the forums and as a group we felt it was time to post an update again and ask some questions.

Rhyagelle and Absa have no diplomatic, magic or forces attacks on one another and have agreed to de-escalate their conflict. To my knowledge the whole thing which kicked this off has now ended. In light of this I would like to ask again - what are the terms for peace - from those we are at war with. I am yet to receive a response to my initial question on this so I am asking again.

We hope that we can broker peace and bring an end to things and would look forward to some contact in the next 24 hours to have discussions in regard to this.

There have been other discussions that have been doing the rounds and I would like to at least let you know how I see things. Consone is a confederacy of different alliances with their own command structures and aims. As I have said repeatedly, we are friends and it is why we set the whole thing up. There is no, one over arching leader. Much has been made of Consone being a Machiavellian organisation seeking to dominate Elgea or just a schoolground bully. Indeed the same accusations have been fired at Harmless? For our part, it was never our intention to set up a confederation as such and for those who know me well, they would know that would never be my personal aim.

As others have said, the best way to see Consone is as friends whose alliances are confederated. I am not going to go over the whole 'how it happened' thing again, suffice to say alliances in Consone have their opinion and clearly Harmless? and others have their opinion, and those viewpoints differ.

Now, speaking for Invictus I have noted with some interest the accusations towards alliances in Consone using the backing of the confederate to make land grabs and harvest aggressively. I have to say, at no time in my leadership of VIC has a VIC member done this without a clear signal to refrain from doing it immediately. The amount of guidance we have issued on respecting people's sovereignty and harvesting areas has been numerous. When H? broke their NAP with us 6 weeks or so ago, they said that they were fed up of our aggressive harvesting tactics. I asked Kumo at the time if we could not just discuss what had happened and if we could resolve any disputes without resorting to cancelling a NAP. I did not receive a response. I have never had any contact with H? resembling an issue that we had to broker over harvesting so this came out of the blue. I have had conversations with other alliances and we have come to agreements where necessary. A mature conversation would have involved us having a discussion and I would have valued that, instead I remain with a blanket statement with no substance, nor ability to address reasonably.

Since that time we know about the issue with Absa and Rhyagelle. Two H? members moved over to Rhyagelle about a week before they declared war on Absa. I note with some interest that those members are back in H? and busy sieging our towns.

So, I look forward to the chance at having a discussion about peace.