All hail noble ladies and gentlemen!

It seems like that the war between the Kristall-Allianz and Baron Brightblade's men is still not over yet. When Brightblade announced is defeat his opponents demanded high claims to take him away any possibility to start a new war against them. But this claims seemed to hard for him and so the fights contiuned. Unfortantely I receive not many information from this war zone. At least I heard that the Kristall-Allianz lost one of his member. The realm of Lord Javaanse was shaken with an agiation and so he had to leave his country in a mad rush. Of course this loss gives Baron Brightblade new spirit and now the war will continue for a long time I feel.
On Eternia instead the peace between the “Hopliten“ and “VSZE“ comes to a conclusion. New borders have been determinded and a contract has been signed from almost all involved in the meanwhile. Although there have been no fights for several years already and everthing is quiet and peaceful, we all feel better when the peace is becoming contractual. Most of our soldiers have been reunited with their families for years now and enjoy their peaceful life. Only a few troops serve the weapon, because from time to time orcs appear in the southern mountains. They attack surprisingly and especially our ore mine. Again and again some miners die during these attacks, because it is very difficult to catch the orcs in this maze of rocks and gorges.
Recently our realm received news from our ally Lionheart. As I had reported earlier, he had been chased away in disgrace by his folk because of the mismanagement of his brother. He dared to flee over the ocean with a group of loyalists and tried to find a new home. Now we got a letter which confirmed that he established a new city on the island Minhiriat and has his own little realm there now. We wish him all the best and hope to hear from him more often in future.
In the last time we saw little ships on the endless immensity of the sea around Eternia. Of course there have been ships in the past, but most of them had been makeshifted knocked together floats or ancient ships which were from the time of the first settlers. These floating coffins were too instable to lay an island purposefully or even to trade. So in many reamls there have been researches for years and old instruction plans have been studied to construct fit ships which would be safe even during rough sea and bigger distances. A further problem prevented the use of ships in a bigger extent. For equipping the ships and to get men for it as well as for every other preparations the erection of a harbor is essential. Unfortunately it is a very expensive project and you need a lot of material for it and many builder. Only in the past few years some lords were able to afford such a harbor and had finally the requiered conditions to set sail. Especially the trade with other island were a good impulse, because it is extremely sure that it is a good business to do overseas trade. Also here in the Erzlanden documents have been studied for years and several reasearched had been done and finally we were able to produce little trade ships in a good quality.
But unfortunately this business tells against us. We now have a little stock of trade ships but no harbor. Our capital city is in the middle of the inland and at the moment it is impossible for us to effort enormous deliverables which are nessecary to erect a harbor city on the coast.
But Alberich found another way to use the ships. He suddenly started to sell them for money on markets of Eternia. So when now a lord wants to buy one or more ships they will nearly completely decomposed and then transported by horses and carts cumbersome over the country to their destiantion. This procedure is laborious and expensice but for the lords who can't construct ships by their own it is the only possibility for them to take part in the seafaring right now.