What are you on about Kinngrimm?
well i am *not much* of a conspiracy nut, but i like the constructs behind them. The seemingly not or perhaps even though related connections leading to certain conclusions.
Lets say a few months ago, there had been 2 friends facing a dilemma.
Their clan got inactive , their leaders lost hope and overall everything was just grimm&grey(no pun intended) looking.
Lets call those two friends Enigma and Frost.
They came up with a plan to solve their misery of having much land but none to occupy it and fight the war they wanted so badly.
Both founded a new faction.
Enigma took over a the claims of an inactive ally and Frost did the same with their old claims.
They recruited heavily former allies members and new "perhaps" unaware but with the will to do something in strategus.
Meanwhile they tell the puplic, we are our own thing and we do what we want, both parts are still true, even if the objectives always kept the same.(hence the words of Enigma "We never intended to have a relation ship with ...)
Now after the claims and ressources are under control, it is time to engage again. They had time to form a strategy where and how to hit and now the misery is gone and the dilemma is solved.
Or as Enigma would call it, lets have fun.
sounds familiar
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So what i am up to, is the point, that while staying true what you said publicly, you may not have told your intentions for what all of that Enigma and Frost had aimed for. Which overall is understandable and good strategy. What i am not sure about, how many of your new members did see that coming and if they really wanted to side with DRZ. There is a former leader of a well known faction, who always said it is about the numbers to take down DRZ, and now his old fellows side with them ... that seems a bit awkward
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anyhow as you can see i have too much time on my hand to formulate wild conspiracy theories
but i thought it maybe fun that people may scratch their heads over it. Also i don't want to take all this serious, i just have the habit to think too much and i don't claim i am always right with what i come up through that, it is more like a muscle training.