☀️ Arselia and Akonia

— Good day, — instead of staring blankly, the former inquisitor greeted, — I am a volunteer cook from the SRI, Alaria Doran. I was told to come here.

—I doubt your ancestors had anything to do with this directly... Although, who knows, maybe I've been disrespectfully addressing you all this time. —the knight shrugged. —Rather, they suffered from the ambitions of those who like to paint the map with the blood of their citizens no less than mine. Well, I recently talked to a surviving fellow countryman, and he expressed an interesting thought that the Kreidean way of life — without a strong army, powerful allies, king-mages, and so on — would sooner or later lead to the conquest of this region. If not for the resources, then just for political gain. Of course, such an outcome does not evoke positive emotions in me towards the one who started this campaign; there is, by the way, a separate chapter about this in the "Chronicles," but it would be foolish to deny the rules of the game in this world. In the end, under the empire, we enjoyed some kind of peace for much longer than if we had been conquered by some undead army. —oy...