Thread:EthanKoenigsberg/@comment-15419758-20171031235821/@comment-15419758-20171109003625

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The Ghouls First Guild organizes a mass ultimatum of all their hordes against the East: That the Eastern hordes drop Lovecraftianism and ban the Cthulhu horde as an "Enemy of the Ghallians", or the West will secede from the Ghallian Horde. The Cthulhu Guild hordes refuse to let go of their beliefs, and say they're fine with the West seceding, but are sad that those hordes "don't see the light of the Lovecraftian gods". The West then secedes and forms the Ghoul Federation, gutting the horde-confederation system for a more centralized government with power over provinces.

The North, however, with its slew of unorganized minor hordes, is unable to clearly define to the Southern governments which minor hordes are more aligned with Ghouls First or Cthulhu. Both sides then draw lines through the North where they think the hordes on their side of the line are mostly aligned with them, but end up with two wildly different lines. In the disputed region between the lines, the hordes there mostly are a mix of both ideologies without a clear dividing line, and some hordes that don't care either way. This massive border dispute makes further expansion harder until it's resolved. (Lol, this reminds me of Claustrocartography)

The guilds in both nations, which have been unified by their stance against the other, start to split up and diversify for the new nations. The Apapnub Guild splits off as a more liberal version of the Cthulhu Guild in the East Ghallian Horde (EGH), and the Ghouls First Guild in the Ghoul Federation (GF) breaks into the Ghouls United and Free Ghallian Guilds, more commonly known as the "Red" and "Blue" guilds.

Meanwhile, the EGH makes more gains into Antisoda as their army grows and they start making use of the skeleton army. Also the GF finishes chopping down the Ghastly Woods, capturing phantom ectoplasm in bottles for future military use.