Extinction (Certain Death)

[Bologna Prime]

A spark of anticipation runs through the peculiar living networks which uphold the defenses of Delphina's core demesne. Oaks old rousing from their patient vigil, and oaks young turning aglow for the first time to lend their nascent light to the wider whole. Experimentation in the barrier arts made at the behest of the realm's heir readied for the possibility of trial by fire. Royal decree demands an orderly haste to run circuits from woods and quarries to city streets and workshops. Much to be done - all rehearsal found through the farce of a bluff redoubled in effort. For all availing foresight which would indicate the well-established Realm in the heart of northern Meranthe be an ill-preferred pathway to the Demon King's prize further south - it would only be failing foresight itself, to rest upon the figurative laurels. The North whole was a front, and how quickly a front can shift! 

No greater poison in the nation's history than a lack of duty and diligence from within.

Ports are renovated for not only finer efficiency, but further accommodation afforded by the recent reshaping of the land and sea at graces divine, an ideal harbor drawn between Dal'Thala and Nereides. Work is set to seeing those new piers filled with ready vessels to secure northern shores - native and otherwise, as word of an accord with the Ruby Empire of Gaikayo be proven substantial by the sight of jade-cloaked expeditionary forces arriving by the boatload alongside representatives of the home country's various guilds all-too interested to capitalize on certain privileges afforded in those Eastern ports for the added assurance to their safekeeping.

Yet as the requests of Gaikayo go answered, their necessity makes plain the vulnerable nature of a certain exclave in the west: Arcadia. Previous bonds of vassalage relinquished to be placed anew to a more geographically sensible liege - and most importantly, capable of obliging what defensive needs loom hauntingly over the heads of each the many city-states scattered between greater powers. Enfeoffed as a lordship of the Realm under the same charge of Mitra Prithvi, the Elzara marches to secure the newly extended border. Local militias supplemented roughly twice over by the more established domain's army.

Preceding deployment, junior officers and other middle-range magi within the ranks are screened and tried for the issuance of alchemical enhancers in quantities gauged to the development of their circuits. So doctrine would have it that what a single vanguard magi could covet and glut upon before their vessel can take no more could be just as efficiently used to enhance the acuity and survivability of roughly a dozen less intensive yet essential posts within their scope.

For what wagers would be made that some diversion from the home garrison be worth the prospect of denying certain footholds beyond Delphina's own scope - the home garrison remains much more sizeable than any expeditionary force currently dispatched. A reserve most would still envy for any surprises the war may yet pose beyond its opening acts, or perhaps more importantly remaining an unenviable path through the North as the war goes on.

Deployment of Forces:

21k Reserved
  5k Deployed to Gakaiyo
  4k Deployed to Arcadia

Wartime Initiatives:

Naval Expansion (10 sailboats. Nice, properly mapped ports.)
Booster Distribution (200 Vitality X, 200 Power X)
Awakening of the Barrier Oaks (???)