Royal Castle Advisory Room (Fhirdiad)
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A report, Your Majesty. The Imperial army marches on western Faerghus.
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Just when we'd brought peace back to the area, too. We should get ready to provide aid at once.
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Rodrigue has already been dispatched to Mateus along with all the soldiers I can currently spare.
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And I've sent Annette and Gustave to the baron's side—though if it's for better or worse is yet to be seen.
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I don't doubt we'd all ride to the rescue if we could, but that's clearly not possible given the situation.
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Agreed. Now that Claude's joined up with the enemy, we can't risk doing anything foolish.
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If we move our soldiers even a breath away from the northeast, the Alliance will be all over us.
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All we can do now is divide our forces to keep the enemy in check and meet their attacks as they come.
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We never should've let this happen in the first place, but who could've seen the Empire and Alliance forming such a union?
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Boar. Are you seriously going to just stand by and watch? They'll overrun us if we don't stem the tide.
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Though it smacks of desperation, I'm told the western front has enlisted the services of Jeralt's Mercenaries.
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They're the same band that carried the battle at Magdred Way, so I hope we can make good use of them again.
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Is this really the plan? Burn through mercenaries while we hole up here?
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Do try not to be so grim—the Empire has pushed rapid reforms on the land over these last few years.
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Not everyone was happy to have such changes thrust upon them, and that includes their new "friends" in the Alliance.
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The Empire is leaning over the Kingdom with such greed that they might yet trip over their own feet.
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Do you think there will be revolts?
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I'm certainly not going to plan my strategy around it, but there have been whispers, yes.
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The old ways must die—with that I agree. But shove that down the people's throats, and you risk breaking the very land you're trying to rule.
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Yes, we've grappled for years with the aftermath of trying to enact reform...
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Change is a painful process, but rushed change will set the region to rot from the inside out.
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I wonder why they're so intent on doing this the quick and dirty way.
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It's difficult to say. Perhaps were things different, we might have found some common ground— some harmonious way forward.
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But I've lost too many I care about to this war. Ashe and Ingrid chief among them.
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But I've lost too many I care about to this war. Ingrid chief among them.
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When I think about what they fought for—what they died for—there can be no turning back.