Tirshatha
Tirshatha`s Beginnings:
Tirshatha the Empire began when Blood Oasis (lead by Glock) and Helkath-Hazzurim (lead by SchadenFreude, from here on SF) who were long time allies joined forces to form one entity. This occurred after the sacking of Archenland (Vlaanderen and Rome both provided the main strength of this attack as Helkath-Hazzurim had been beaten on previously by Archenland. The two Empires (Rome and Vlaanderen) were allies of Helkath-Hazzurim soon after its creation by SF and Newblood). During these times war was quick and deadly. The motivating factors behind the Archenland conflict were:
Tijsus antagonizing Helkath-Hazzurim (no referred to as HH) with path attacks, then fleeing to Archenland at which point SF told Archenland`s king that he would allow Tijsus to go unmolested since he respected Archenland. Archenland then attacked HH for the sacking (and reset) of several provinces within a kingdom. This is also where the feud between SF and Pieterblomme/Blommethomas began. Due to SF`s pride and ego, Archenland suffered many resets for what SF felt was an affront to his rarely occurring gesture of good will.
This is where things took off. War was easy and profitable for the warriors of Tirshatha, with HH and Blood Oasis (from now on referred to as BO) leading the way. After a time a larger conglomerate was formed called the Order of the Templar Knights, which sparked a large engagement between members of OTK and the entities known in the past as 7 Clan, Heaven, Fraternitas ad Lucem, and Vendetta Empire. One of the Templar Knights (Clostridian) had a long standing issue with members of the 7 Clan and Tirshathans (Tirshatha being a new member of the order) played a significant part in the reseting of 7 Clan members, though that`s not to say they were relied on or outdid any of the other participants in terms of provinces broken, they just did most of the resets. It was Tirshathan policy to fight brutally, as that is what they expected in return. Due to poor negotiation attempts by some of the Leaders of the Templar Knights with the opposition, SF was motivated to leave the OTK and take Tirshatha with him. The Order soon buckled as it was not popular in the eyes of many of the key members.
It was soon after this that the strongest fighting kingdom Tirshatha knew (the Vultures,lead by Zeriot) joined. It was not long after this that the strike against Citadel Incognita occurred. Citadel Incognita was a member kingdom of the Fraternitas ad Lucem (hereto after referred to as FaL) which had been antagonizing Tirshatha for their tendency towards resets. After three separate warnings that there would be violence against FaL for the antagonization, the attacks occurred. SF, being uncertain of who he could trust, told very few people of his intentions. During the war room, when it was seen that certain people who had promised to be there weren`t showing, the attacks happened anyway. Due to poor leadership and tactics, the offense went worse than it could have. Instead of hitting all of the kingdoms of FaL it was decided what strength there was was better managed just bringing a lot of damage to Citadel Incognita. Tirshatha had never been an Empire of large kingdoms as the frequent warring and raiding rarely left Tirshathans room to get very large as they were frequently butting heads with Empires and Kingdoms larger than their own size on top of dealing with the skirmishes with those who WERE their size and smaller. It was during this time that many came to know SF as a liar and a manipulator, including many within his own circle. He was not adept at leading large groups, and had trouble interacting with many people at once. While social, he could not keep up with all of the responsibilities to his own Empire-mates that came with the title and position of Emperor, despite the efforts of Shordan to get him to be more of a reachable figure in the Empire.
It is true that SF had said he was leaving at this time (he in fact tried to leave several times in order to get away from the game and the fact it had become a job instead of a joy), however, he had planned for a replacement Emperor in Glock who had said he was ready and willing- and was also very like minded in terms of war-appetite and had no qualms about resetting or being an all out villainous jerk, one of the founding principles of Tirshatha was being evil and playing the villain. However, due to real life issues he was unable to take the reigns and the ball dropped. Raxamillion picked it up and tried very hard to keep it in the air but eventually he too needed time away. Given there was no one else willing to take the job, SF came back so that the Empire he and Glock had founded would not just fall apart into nothing.
It was decided that SF would be the Emperor and handle the politics and diplomatic maneuvering as the others wanted no part in it. His generals would pass on the decisions he made, and it was thus (through the hard work of those generals - Zeriot, Shordan, Addicus, and others later on) that a chain of command was established. Policy changes included a general cessation of senseless resetting, partly brought on by a deal brokered between Zeriot and FaL. He had particular differences with Zeriot, and was very distrustful of her for the most part and in return- she of him, but they still tried to work together.
A kingdom that had left during his absence (Amazon Warrior Women – AWW) came back. With the combined efforts of his generals who were better at combat than he was, and his political voice and public image, Tirshatha grew in power again. What followed was a period of Villainy with Honor (so to speak) for the Tirshatha Empire.
While the Vultures regrouped after riding to assist in the defense of their ally, Vermilion Purulence, Tirshatha continued to build. It was during this time that SF had engaged Darklighter (The Emperor of the Vendetta Empire and one of the key members of the Vanguard Alliance -VA) in diplomatic dialogue. The idea behind it was to see what kind of role VA would be playing in the future. While the discussion was still in the infancy stages, the vote to see if Tirshatha would like to join VA had already closed and it was a unanimous “No”. It was during one of their discussions, that Darklighter had stated he felt that the Tirshathans were scared of VA and were teetering on a ledge. In a way he may have been correct, but the result was a declaration of 1 vs 1 warfare, with very honorable terms set in order to encourage others to stay out and allow both parties their conflict. Heaven threatened to intervene if Tirshatha did not give the Vendetta Empire time to respond. So Tirshatha drew back and allowed the Vendetta Empire to counter-attack, otherwise it would`ve been over the first night. The generals of Tirshatha proved their prowess on the field and Vendetta was put down, and there was no real ill will amongst any of them.
Eight days later however, knowing full well Tirshatha was weak and not wanting to wait for Tirshatha to get back on its feet to do continue the pattern, FaL engaged Tirshatha under the same terms Tirshatha had engaged Vendetta Empire. This served to dissuade others from trying the 1 vs 1 approach in terms of Empire conflicts in the future, as it just meant they`d be beaten up by their friends after. As in all cases, some lines got a little blurry at times and little things were argued over. In the end though, the result was a resounding victory for FaL who were larger, better supplied, and fresh to the fight versus Tirshatha who was smaller, restocking from the war, and rebuilding from the damages sustained during the Vendetta Empire`s counter attack. This largely soured the idea of being honorable in SF`s opinion as his attempt to do so had just been cast back into his face again, though from the viewpoint of others he was a scheming manipulator, so from that viewpoint it was understandable.
It was some time after this after establishing the generals who he`d entrusted the handling of the Empire to while he dealt with the political arena as the new Emperors, SF quit for what he thought was the final time. I do not know much of the details of what happened during that time so I can not say. After a while, he`d heard of the great conflict that had ensured between Tirshatha and her long time enemies and under request from members of the Empire as well as one of the generals, SF came back to help handle the political aspects of running the Empire again. When the conflict was finally resolved, and all sides had finally ceased. The Vultures as well as many others left the Empire, as they`d been free to do at any time before that. Seeing that there was little to no activity, SF dissolved the Empire of Tirshatha and quit again.
I feel it is important to note that Zeriot mentions “SF realized he couldn`t force us to do anything”, yet it was a well known fact to many who were in the Empire that he did not care enough to try to make those in Tirshatha do as he said because that wasn`t what he had set Tirshatha up to be about. Her assessment about what followed after the second time he quit is true, however. He had little to nothing to do with the course Tirshatha followed after establishing the three of them as the Emperors. As they were already doing most of the work in terms of managing the Empire, it was an easy transition for them to take over the politics as well if they broke it up between them- each getting a continent to “control” so to speak.
The Tirshathan Empire was first and foremost a large player in the Aegean world, shaping many of the practices in battle themselves. Divvying up the credit to any one individual is useless as it takes away from the fact that the Tirshathan Empire was a team effort, not the work of one man or woman alone. Each leader had their faults and strengths, but no one can deny that the work they wrought was a work of art.
It ain`t easy being mean, and they did it with a smile.
---Zyrr
The Last Days of Tirshatha
It has been a long time since Tirshatha has been mentioned in any politics, however I still feel I owe it a small favour before its forgotten altogether. I want to talk about the Tirshatha I knew, the Tirshatha that has sadly been lost to many in lies and deceptions. Now I think is indeed the time, most of us that was involved are after all already gone.
I will begin when The Vultures joined Tirshatha, since this is where I got involved, some time after the OTK wars.. For some weeks we lived happily, we raided some, and the lady of luck was looking favourably upon us. The whole Tirshatha did grow and prosper under this time, few were our enemies and many were our friends. And time went by thus... One day Schadenfreude (SF from now on) came to us and said we would have a big attack in the near future, the target was yet unknown so we prepared ourselves the best we could and a few days later the day for the attack had finally come.
In the war room there were already plenty of people but still we waited for some, some that would as it seemed as time went by never show up, some empire having backed out in the last minute. Don’t remember who it was, SF maybe could say. After a while there were nothing more to do, those that didn’t show was not to be waited on any longer, our target was revealed, it was the FaL empire and especially Citadel Incognita and Summus. Honestly I think very few of us thought we could win at that time, allies had turned away and left us with very little chance. Still we decided to attack.
In the attack it was meant we would reset 1 province (Summus) for various accusations he had done against our empire even though warned of the consequences of he kept getting involved in Tirshatan private matters. I’m not going to make a statement if I think this was deserved or not, I don’t know, I wasn’t that involved in politics at the time. However I had no problems in my relations with Summus at later stage. As time went by it was clear we would not be able to take on more than one FaL kingdom and here things started to go awry, up to 7 other members of Citadel Incognita got reset for no particular reason else than being FaL and Tirshatha ended the attacks.
The reaction came not long after, Heaven/Vendetta/FaL got together and started attacking Tirshathan kingdoms, every province in the bigger Tirshatha kingdoms, no matter if it had been involved or not in the attacks got razed. With some irony I remember the few who didn’t show up only because they thought they might be spared. FaL stated they would not reset and they did not, instead others did it for them. The outcome was pretty much the same.
At the time many accused SF of giving no explanations to his planned attack, I was one of them, and also criticised the way he had held the target hidden and not cared about the consequences, after all he was to leave after this as he had announced in the war room. As far as I know at least AWW and The Vultures never did get much explanation about this before the attacks began and not even today I think there are anyone who can say how much SF has misread our understanding of the situation and how much he played us for his own ambitions. I guess it was a bit of both, now I don’t say it would have changed a thing if we had known or not, it probably wouldn’t have. He would only have been viewed as less a liar by his own.
As The Vultures was small it took some time until Queen Zeriot started to get any attacks against her and she later received the ultimatum that until The Vultures left Tirshatha they would not get any peace with FaL, this ultimatum she got mostly due to the fact that she had friends in FaL and Heaven who didn’t really want to raze her that much, this was almost a week after the first attacks against FaL.
The Vultures then decided that we would stay in Tirshatha no matter what happened and thus Zeriot and a few others got razed. A few days later the attacks ended, Tirshatha was now pretty much in ruins and as Tirshatha refused to surrender no deals were made except a nap that was to be hold for the next 2000 turns. I’m unsure if it did, I don’t think it did, but at least it held for quite some time. Well if you count out the smaller skirmish from The Vultures that shortly will follow below.
Shadenfreude had before the attack against FaL announced his retirement from Tirshatha, a thing that did many of the Tirsthathan kingdoms uncertain about the future. With the empire in ruins and SF gone there was an urgent need for a strong leader to Tirshatha, also Greywulf and Crimson Steel was released from their “contract” and left Tirshatha. The biggest problem however was that there wasn’t anyone suited for the position as emperor, Glock who was named the new emperor by SF was busy in real life and weeks later left the game completely. His only achievement at the time was making Zeriot very angry at him.
At this time there was a lot of talking about leaving and many leaders showed their concern about the state Tirshatha was in, also the fact that many felt misguided by SF weighted in. AWW was one kingdom that decided to leave after having talked to us who were left in the empire and been granted our support nevertheless. After AWW left people started to realize how unsteady Tirshatha was and now Raxamillion begun his work to save Tirshatha. Whatever you can else say about him he did work very hard to put Tirshatha together and he, Zeriot and Addicus had numerous discussions about the future of Tirshatha. For the record I can say it was here I myself began to get control over Tirshathas actions.
After a while it was decided that the things done in the past were to be considered done with and no one would leave anymore. After all miscalculations and lack of information was the main factory to Tirshathas current state, not any different views on Tirshathas policy. This way Raxamillion was named the new emperor with Addicus and Zeriot as his main support and behind him them they had a once again a united Tirshatha.
Most of The Tirshathan Empire was still rebuilding at this time and most of the efforts were put into communications between the kingdoms. Slowly the kingdoms begun to grow once again and with time we grew into the power we had been once again. Of course on the expanse of various smaller kingdoms who couldn’t withstand our experience and ferocity
At this time Zeriot was still rebuilding and decided to make a visit to Vermillion Purulence to make the alliance even stronger than before.
This were the state of Tirshatha and The Vultures when rumours started to say that SF were to return to Tirshatha and wanted to become emperor again, at first this news was hardly a matter of joy for most but when Raxamillion also became less and less active due to personal reasons and most of us were quite unwilling to take over we started to think SF were one option for Tirshatha. After all no one was really willing to take over the emperor seat but him.
The Vultures itself had some interesting times these days, with Zeriot absent some had decided they should attack a small kingdom and thus it happened that The Vultures attacked a small newly created kingdom of FaL and conquest its only big vassal some times, which of course didn’t please FaL and Summus and so Zeriot found herself once again dealing with Summus. After some rather drastic suggestions as solutions to this problem Summus and Zeriot finally came to an agreement and ended the meeting in a somewhat friendly manner. It was agreed upon that The Vultures would pay some repairs and would not reset players (which back then still was something Tirshatha was known to allow frequently) if there was not specific reasons to it. With Zeriot accepting such rules for The Vultures who had began growing big already and herself being one of the stronger persons in the empire one might say that what would follow maybe was decided there.
SF was not thrilled to hear about that agreement but he accepted it pretty fast anyway, after having discussed the matter with Zeriot he announced the new rules of Tirshatha that clearly stated resets was something to be frowned upon without extreme reasons to it. Many thought this was a new chapter for Tirshatha and so it may have been, at least it was the end to the small nw reseters that Tirshatha had been known for before.
Tirshatha was slowly coming back on its feet, a few occasional raids here and there where the most exciting things to report from that period. Then VA (Vanguard Alliance I think it was named) was created by the Heaven, Vendetta and FaL (Not sure if DoT was in or not) and times became interesting once again. Upon the creation of VA they also broke all their alliances; this included a mpa with the Klau empire. Rumors had already earlier been spread that Klau would be attacked, now it was certain it would happened. The Vultures found one of its oldest allies, Vermillion Purulence, in the middle of the war with overwhelming odds against them. The matter was hardly discussed at all before Zeriot contacted Dispater and said The Vultures would defend and attack with Vermillion in this war. Tirshatha wasn’t as fast, I know now of the pretty cold feelings between Dispater and SF at the time and maybe that was one of the reason Tirshatha itself didn’t get involved. However neither could SF prevent The Vultures from doing as they wanted.
The state Klau was in wasn’t pretty, the war chat was a mess and very soon Dispater got enough and Vermillion/CS/The Vultures had its own war room, leaving the others to their own mess. They didn’t manage much. The Heaven Empire was the ones who were Dispaters target and thus The Vultures joined in attacking its former benefactors (of course Heaven had attacked The Vultures earlier in the FaL incident as well) and tried to help Vermillion and CS in any way they could. It was a losing battle we were fighting though, everyone knew that from the beginning. After having made VA pay a heavy toll, for attacking, Vermillion and CS was razed to the ground and The Vultures withdrew to defend themselves.
One day later Heaven was coming on a visit, Zeriot who held the crown at that moment was sadly at work and no one else was able to help much in the defence. Zeriot had ordered her own people in the attacks against Heaven to only do plunders, so Land of Ares said he had done the same, sadly this rule was not really followed by all of Heavens members. After all The Vultures had brought in all its cannons against Heaven, cannons that Dispater sorely had needed, as well as helping to breach several provinces which both parties of course knew. Noticing the razes done against The Vultures Ares changed his statement to say that they had been kind. Thus Zeriot and The Vultures again got back to rebuilding.
Meanwhile the rest of Tirshatha was still untouched and kept on building itself up, after a while SF announced a voting to be done in Tirshatha, would we like to ally with VA or not. The result was a no in every kingdom. Instead an offensive against the Vendetta part of VA was planned and in a 1vs1 challenge Tirshatha pretty easily won against Vendetta and forced them to surrender and give up all rights for retal. What should maybe be mentioned is that no unnecessary violent methods were used in this war, maybe the first war ever done by Tirshatha were resets and unnecessary razes were forbidden. This said as to show the big contrast to what would follow.
Not even ten days later FaL declared a 1vs1 against Tirshatha, a war we of course knew would come sooner or later but still we were taken by surprise by the few days given us to get back in shape. Unnecessary to say FaL targeted all Tirshatha kingdoms and managed to take most of them and their attack strength out in one night, given their superior size and timing this was no big surprise. The war did not end with this however, what followed was once again a week of razes done to Tirshatha provinces, until we were once again without buildings, a thing that I guess most of our members had grown used to by now since it seemed to be FaL´s normal way to handle things at the time. This is interesting when compared to the rather kind way Vendetta was treated when they had been beaten, a thing FaL said they were out to revenge. I’m pretty sure Hitonagashi will confirm that in fact FaL was afraid that Tirshatha would take them and Heaven out in 1vs1 fights as well when it suited us and then when they would be broken begin to raze them all. So we were considered an unnecessary threat and done away with, nothing unexpected really. All the lies at the time however made the politics a game where lies upon lies were cast and pretty fast made the ones involved who knew and understood the real reasons frustrated..
For weeks after this there were thus not much happening, Tirshatha was rebuilding and life had its slow way. A few small skirmishes maybe happened and now and then kingdoms even tried to attack Tirshatha kingdoms but noticed their bad timing when they got overwhelmed and forced to surrender after having seen their “victims” stand up and beat them down.
Until now I have been writing with the help of documents from that time. What follows can in no way be said to include the same level of detail since my memory isn’t that great. However since we had been razed to the ground, completely I feel it’s safe to say our rebuild took us a pretty long time. Of course, as usual this involved the various raid of smaller kingdoms, after all that’s the only way we had to get enough fire power again for the next challenge. Hmm here I think I should address a certain thing I have often found kind of funny, the fact that Heaven/FaL/Vendetta always went out and declared themselves to be the protectors of Aegis while we were the ones plundering Aegis. Well it’s easy to be “protectors” of the ones we raided when they had us to raid. After all they did that on regular basics, why would they need to attack others. If we hadn’t been there however, I’m pretty sure you would have seen another side of the “protectors”. After all they didn’t expect to stop growing to protect others, and it’s a game of might. No accusations, I would have done the same, but I probably wouldn’t have played the holy part, I would have disliked the pretending for the masses too much.
I also want to address a certain part to WoTO now, you never knew why you were razed by The Vultures and a few other Tirshatha kingdoms at the time. Since everyone remained silent about this by order of myself. You had a few days before this razed most of TFA (former AC) which Tirshatha had an alliance with, because of this I promised I would make these attacks for Agent and Oz. Our relations at the time was not that friendly and you were viewed as the only threat Tirshatha had at the time. Thus I ordered the attacks on you, ironically enough everyone believed me when I said you should ask the reason to this from SF, in fact it was a running joke between him and me that he always had to take responsibility for whatever I did. No big surprise you never got an explanation, now I wanted to say this however since I have been with you since then and I know you are not bad people. I feel you at least deserve the truth by now and hope you know me too well by now to judge me much.
Well sometime in between this Tirshatha defended Klau another time as well, against Vendetta I think, however this went against my own judgement and I said as much to SF. However he still wanted to do it and I said fine, but I won’t be here when you do it, neither was anyone from The Vultures as ordered. I think that was maybe the first time SF realized we couldn’t force us to do anything. Well it didn’t go to well for them.
So after all this we went on for a pretty long time, we grew big once again and grew stronger by every day. It was by this time that our enemies became a bit weaker as well, a few leaders began to give up their activity and a few razed accounts never built up again. Safe to say things were looking up, even if we were still outnumbered and outsized. Also we had by then began forming a new leadership that worked under SF, safe to say SF`s presence made it kind of easy for us to take over more and more of the leadership without anyone really noticing. After all SF was still the strong man outwards and thus he would stay until he quit, again. Sometime before Christmas that year SF said he had a plan he would like us to think about which would involve several empires to go full out against VA, something they shouldn’t be able to stand. However little real came out from this as SF said he would quit a little time later, again..
Now it’s because of the time that follows in Tirshathas history that I really write this story, I feel that so many people and so many struggles has been overshadowed by SF reputation, I think its time something is done about this. Because I say it straight out right now, nothing that will follow or the success or strength of Tirshatha from now on was in any way due to SF. I want to give the honour of that to the people that really should have it.
Some time before SF left it was already decided that Shordan, Mr.1010111100 and Zeriot would take over, each responsible for their own server. Now the reason why this was possible without any real internal problem was that neither of us really had any ambition to rule supreme, after all we had been ruling in SF`s shadow a long time by now and its safe to say we were content with that. We did the jobs and he took the blame. Now we had to step out, but by now we had formed a few pretty good base kingdoms on all servers so we met little opportunists. Of course the fact that both I and Shordan was seen as the war generals for Tirshatha before SF`s leave probably did make people hesitant to attack even if they were unaware of our true roles before.
However, we three were far from all of it. By now we were working very hard on activating all of Tirshatha and we soon had a council that included the leaders of every kingdom in the empire. Safe to say is that now it was far from the emperor ruled format it once had been. I want to say thank you to a few people, most of them not here anymore, they were the reason why Tirshatha was what it was, and they deserve to be mentioned even if this late. Shordan, Chrilith, Mr1010111100, Xaos, Del, Allanon, Target, Addicus, TheRose, QueenClarissa, well even BlackRainbow in her way. These were the leaders who helped to build Tirshatha up in ways it never had been before. It was at these times that The Vultures was the flagship of Tirshatha with at 5.5b nw and it was now the time to act once again came.
Together with our allies we began to plan how to break VA (which probably had changed back to separate empires again by now, its just easier to write VA) once and for all, now we had the strength and organisation after all. Together with Vlaanderen and AC we began to collect interested parties which included empires as the by now restored Klau Empire (they had been a part of Tirshatha for a long time before this), SI, Rose Empire and a few independents. However a few things didn’t work in our favour in this, Neco declared himself emperor and SI decided they should take him out as well as the DoT Empire. Well safe to say however that DoT had very strong ties to FaL and thus to Heaven as well. Now as I know now, and feared by the time, SI`s involvement made FaL and Heaven think they had to take us out before they could take on SI, they feared we would join in with SI if they had attacked them and then they would have faced both SI and Tirshatha at once. Which of course was true, after all we had planned on taking them on anyway.
By accounts I have heard that Heaven at this time were pretty sure they could take out Tirshatha and they began the attacks on us expecting an easy win as they had gotten before. However I think they had sorely misjudged the strength of Tirshatha at the time, we had never been stronger while their allies FaL had never been weaker. This and the fact that Vlaanderen and AC came in to help as already planned did make this the most even fight in Tirshathas whole history. As a huge kingdom at the time The Vultures withstood the attacks from both Heaven, FaL, DoT and Rakgor for a long time and the easy victory soon turned sour for the attackers. By plan, paths were used to neutralise several bigger attackers and the forces of Tirshatha were enough to break several kingdoms. However as Heaven, FaL and DoT began taking as much damage as Tirshatha on Adarkis Tirshatha also began to lose their Elderis kingdoms to the strength of Rakgor. Now SI was called upon as well as GHE, as our allies the involvement of any of them would probably have had us win the war. However no help came, from GHE it wasn’t really expected but SI who had been involved in the plans and also had been the reason Tirshatha was attacked was expected to show up. By now however SI had came to an agreement with FaL/Rakgor/Heaven to not get involved and thus left their allies to die. Something that really made me laugh when SI got killed by the Unholy alliance later and requested Tirshatha to help. Small wonder they didn’t get any help.
Well after a long exhausting war with most of FaL destroyed, many Heaven kingdoms dead and DoT wiped out as well as Tirshatha mostly razed and Vlaanderen/AC hurt a CF was agreed on by WhiskeyJack and Zeriot. Who at the time were the leading diplomats for all the empires involved. This against the wish of several older VA leaders who had wanted a fight to the death with all sides dead. Probably because they knew what would come next and wanted our empires out of the picture.
Oh and I also forgot I didn’t mention a few deletions of Tirshatha kingdoms by Mod for abusing a bug which plenty of kingdoms had came to use, yes others than Tirshathans as well. Oh and then the backing of the whole server to restore these kingdoms a few days later. I’m not going to make any more comments about this other than to explain that the bug abused was one that today is impossible, shortly if a king was reset and didn’t get replacement nobody could attack provinces in that kingdom. That this bug was unintentionally noticed was a fact. That both sides came to use it was soon a fact as well, however at this time you didn’t really have to use it willingly, after all kings got reset at a high speed. As far as I’m concerned that thing is over and done with and the set back of the servers helped FaL and allies more than Tirshatha, but we had our kingdoms back and that’s all we cared for. I also want to say that I’m glad Mods decided they had been a bit too harsh and repaired it the only way they could, even while it helped our enemies out a bit I appreciate you for making that decision. It meant a lot that you did take time to listen to us and take new decisions based on that.
Now a short while after this the unholy war began, Lotus (mostly 7clan today), GHE and Rakgor began to raze all opponents they had left on Aegis. SI, Vlaan and AC were some that went pretty fast with others following close behind. I can’t say I felt bad at all about SI however since they had had their chance, in fact I think I hadn’t laughed as much for quite a while as when I saw them get killed. Now Tirshatha wasn’t required to join in by their allies, (SI the only exception maybe) who wanted them to stay out for a while until their attacks could make it count. As time went by however it seemed there were no end to the killings and Tirshatha decided it was time to take out Lotus Empire lead by Burama and Avaton, so that we did. It actually didn’t go that bad, Lotus had seriously used out most of its resources by now and even while Tirshatha was seriously damaged from the last war Lotus was not able to withstand the attacks. Well not until the remaining Heaven attacked Tirshatha that is. Heaven which was the only one of the former VA empires to have managed to get out from the war with some strength decided they should once for all finish of Tirshatha and thus it began. Now Lotus and Heaven went out publicly declaring that a reset of all Tirshatha was their goal and with all Tirshathas allies taken out and GHE helping Heaven and Lotus it was not much that could be done. The struggle went on for quite a while and I think about 40% of Tirshatha was reset the others razed.
Oh and WoTO, you were among the few that was of particular help to us at this time, much to my own shame for having razed you earlier. We gave you all info about the Lotus empire and you really used it to best ability. The attacks and the brilliant planned emperorship by KinglyMiff was the best icebreaker in relations between kingdoms I have ever witnessed to date. Safe to say is that WoTO and especially KinglyMiff was a friend from that day on, sad you left, Aegis needed people like you.
Hmm I just realised that I had forgot to mention that SF had returned to Tirshatha sometime in between this and his last quit, not that it really changed anything since he wasn’t leading anything at the time.
Well now with Tirshatha pretty much in ruins and a lot of the leaders leaving I found myself with a decision, either to keep on and rebuild Tirshatha, which would take a lot of effort or move on. Since I felt Tirshatha was a closed chapter for me by now and that I had achieved what had been my goal at the time, to break the power and control of the former power block Heaven-FaL-DoT-Vendetta, I decided it was time to plan my leaving of Tirshatha. However sufficient to say is that The Vultures left for GHE together with a bunch of my old friends from Tirshatha a time after. Tirshatha continued under SF`s leadership for a time forward, until finally dissolving due to lack of activity.
To all those that was a part of making this empire to what I remember it as, thank you and gl in your lives, it was fun. Oh and those I didn’t mention above but still were a big part of the Tirshathan war machine, I haven’t forgotten you, how could I when most of you still talk to me.. Well kidding but the ones I named were the leaders only, there are plenty of others not mentioned that surely would deserve it. Now I guess this has been long enough, judge what I have written as you want. I don’t say this is all there was to it, only that this was what I know of this time. Which should be pretty much since after all, I don’t know anyone better suited to say more about Tirshatha and its dealings at this time.
Zeriot, former Empress of Tirshatha