Smoothrich, when the hell did you become a King? Talking about your Renown, obviously.
I guess you could say those are the two "Power Blocs" at the moment; but they're informal. And to be fair, your list is expanded (for effect obviously). To specify: Fimbulvetr is NH, Frisia, and Dracul in 1 Faction. Same as VE is TKoV, MB, and HoC in one Faction. Fallen and BIRD are also in FCC (not entirely sure about BIRD, but I know Fallen is). While we're at it, we should probably just list out all the clans that comprise together to make up FCC if we want "Super-Effect"
It's opportune for us in Fimbulvetr that VE saw opportunity in Occitan and Hero Party's march against "our lands" and it does shift quite a bit of power around on the map. VE has been left almost entirely uncontested and they have one of the largest member factions for NA (if not the largest?) as well as their members are dedicated to Strategus. They were a big scary monstrosity at the beginning of Strategus, and they've remained that way ever since. FCC--being the only people who could probably rival them, and perhaps Hospitaller (had they not been in a lot of slugfests thus far) were their only real adversaries this map.
I predict we'll see a lot more of Velucan Empire this map, it won't just stop at Occitan and Hero Party (depending on how long that goes on).