Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27460754-20160124200151/@comment-27405625-20160125021728

Argenten wrote: The Eustrin defections seems to be only if Megail makes the embassy investment, otherwise it's more of an economic breakaway, the tunnels being more focused on trade and supplies than anything else,

I do agree that Aram will be focused more on Ardoheim but never underestimate a desperate country presented with a weakened target. What Aram seems to be doing there is creating a near blockade on Eustarin. They're cutting it off from everyone but Aram, the idea probably being to hoard all metal supplies for their own armies. We've just run that blockade and undercut them seriously on an economic and logistics level. Since Palina saw Megail go in, and Megail is obviously Yhilini, they may be hesitant to invade Yhilin until they have a better idea of whether or not we'll increase our contracts so the dwarves can just seal up those tunnels. The dwarves are actually pretty mobile and can easily destroy Aram's plans if they take a mind to it. Strevin says as much in his coversation with Megail, they can dig a new tunnel anywhere.

The Embassy strikes me as more of getting into Ardoheim's politics than Eustarin or Aram's. By the same token, the Aramite captain also had a full bust moment so he seems like he'll be relevent later when it comes to that area. The Aramite captain actually is named in the code as "Palina", I'm pretty sure just looking at the code currently released won't let me see into the future, though. I agree with your reasoning though, that purple armor is just too distinctive looking.

On that same line of thought, I'd bet on Mestan from the bounty office making another appearance down the road. He's just too cool of an NPC to just throw away. We haven't been introduced properly to either of these NPCs though, so it's still anyone's guess.