Zebanamana

Nations go to war. Nations like power and dominance. Why give up the dominance they have over a nation just because some petty reasons that the nation leaders used to get the citizens in support of the war have been expended. Dawn and the Ordinators were scapegoats for conquest. There was no self righteous justifications coming from other nations that joined in. They want land, they want people, they want bloodshed, they want wealth. I know the Orcs feel betrayed by the Salvusians and dishonored. Why would a war culture back down because the Queen and some corrupt guards are dead? Alras is an opportunist nation. From what I have seen they work on the basis of showing their strength and gaining refugees into their population. Besides Syrio is a trickster, when have the things he has done been entirely dictated by justice and not by power? Seventis was motivated by fear and obligation. They are afraid of the Alliance and that is why they fought. They were also allies to Renatus whose former King had bannermen fighting in Salvus for revenge. Honor and fear brought Seventis in. Hanseti went in for justice and joined Salvus for self righteous reasons. Renatian lords joined the war because they hate Salvus for being hypocrites. THey don't believe Salvus should exist and despise many of the rulers of the nation for being the ones they overthrew, they also hate the people who supported these ineffectual leaders as they seem them. The lords want revenge and they also want power. They want Salvus to be Renatian not Salvusian. It eliminates one enemy from the playing field. Why would we stop because our scapegoats are gone? The rebels began because of self righteous means, but they are by no means the only means. Lorethos wants Salvus to be Renatian and he wants to become a Duke of Renatus. He saw the strength coming from Renatus and he saw the weakness in Salvus. He also saw the abuse and ineffectiveness coming from Salvus and began a war. Phase one of his plans have been completed, Dawn has been ousted from power and the Ordinators are being destroyed, but now Phase two begins. As I see it Lorethos moves to have his supporters cut a swath of land for himself while annihilating a nation to gain favor from King Godfrey. The Elves joined because their High Princess was assaulted by Ordinators. While many of those Ordinators may be dead I suspect they also have ulterior motives. Maybe these motives are strengthening relations and rekindling the old alliance that the Elves and Orcs had. There are huge benefits to aiding allies in war, because it is the strongest way to improve ties since trade is essentially useless. This is a reason why Renatus absolutely hates the Dwarves after they betrayed them. Holm has joined because of their friendship with the elves. Their leader has also become a major asset to the rebellion. There is again ulterior motives. Perhaps Holm wants some land on the main continent? Perhaps they are working to get some more armor for their forces? Who knows. You can't say the war should be over because the scapegoats are gone. War is more complicated then "The leadership of this rival nation is abusive to their people; we should go in overthrow them and let the people form a council and just leave the nation as a rival anyways! Cause we are too nice to conquer them :D let us have cake!" It just doesn't happen that way. All nations are rivals, even the nations strongly allied to eachother.

The White Knights and Emerald Knights are both working together under the employee of the Kingdom of Renatus. There is a decent chance that both organizations in the future will join. There is no reason why they should merge with any other of the guilds however. The Knight's Legacy hates Renatus so they would never join. The Crimson Blades work under the employee of Seventies, combining them with another guild would be destroying part of Seventis' military force. For the most part the military and mercenary groups work for nations unlike how they were in Aegis. It is realistic that there would be numerous guilds working for numerous nations. I do say though that they should build guild halls within existing towns instead of creating their own settlements. As for the criminal guilds that seems less likely. While I do not know of the Master Thieves Guilds intentions but I can imagine that thieves do not wish to be likened to assassins. At least being a thief doesn't run the almost absolute certainty of death for their crimes. I say the number of guilds is fine, maybe most should be barred from having their own settlements until they are established to root out the guilds not made to last, but think of it this way it is nothing like Aegis. Remember the super highway that was the king's road? Guild halls everywhere.