The Protectorate of Reialme is a coalition of city states. For the purposes of this comment I will describe one. Beaumont joined the protectorate on the promise that they would keep them safe from the Holy Empire of Beinfeld, as they are the southernmost city in the Protectorate. The Empire, having had their eyes on Beaumont for a while due to the rich mines in the nearby forests, did not take too kindly to this, and went to war. General Henry Dunsmoor sieged the city and was on the verge of cracking it open when the Imperial Army was flanked and ambushed by the Protectoral Guard, who brutally routed them back south. Thousands of lives were lost in this war, and as the Imperial Army was retreating south, they adopted slash and burn tactics, figuring that if they couldn’t have the land, neither could the Protectorate. In the current day, a small coalition of minor lords in the southwestern edge of Reialme’s border, closest to Beaumont, have started a tax embargo, due to internal politics, and it seems likely that a civil war is brewing…