[quote=@Aristo] I think it could be very plausible for Tushiena to take advantage of the civil war, if both sides were concentrating their full attention on each other. However, since your liches arrived here some hundred years ago, I think Chalez would have been suspicious, if not hostile, in response to their sudden appearance near their territory for a very long time. That depends mostly how you want to play their attitudes towards their new neighbor several-hundred years ago and counting. Did they fight in the past, and over what? etc. If Chalez and the liches were longstanding enemies from the first days of Tush's inception, the attack on 11 seems quite appropriate. But do they have a legitimate cause to fight both the elite and the rebels indiscriminately? How eager are they to push deeper into Chalezian territory, now that power has been reconsalidated? They've had fifty years to take advantage of a still-developing government. Granted, if Tush was fighting both sides simultaneously, the Union certainly has a sour opinion of them. [/quote] Considering that the former government was run by arrogant elven pricks who largely looked down on everyone else (Granted humans mages managed to get the rights to do it to, but the elves were doing it longer) then even if over the course of 150 years they had no reason to go to war, it's easy to see why someone would want to strangely the life out of them. If you can steal some good land in the process all the better. As for why they fought the revolutionaries... that might have had more to do with the fact that they were strongly anti-magic. Keep in mind that the revolutionaries were fighting against being ruled by magic users; I highly doubt that they would have been willing to stand by while a different group of magic users took control.