it is now exactly 5 years since I was exiled here.
Some things have changed.
And some of course have not.
Although the population has incresed over tenfold, they are still pretty addlebrained.
The village looks a bit better with the smithy and we also have some ramshackle barracks for our armies.
Yes, that was the major change, we now have armies. Although they are unarmed, they still were able to enlarge our realm.
We also met some neighbours. We found the main cities of 2 and the borders of 2 more.
One of our neighbours, of whom we only see the borders, has threatened us with war every step of the way. He doesn´t like us annexing the land close to his borders, because he want´s to annex it himself. So, he is saying that he want´s to annex the land close to our borders

I hope we can employ more scouts in the future, because our only scout is so far away, it would take him four years to get back. But it looks that it will take several more years until we can employ those scouts...
Until then, we have to scout the surrounding lands with armies and of course annex the free land while we are at it.
Ah, yes, one more thing. This land, or at least what we discovered, is either flat or wooded. We haven´t found a single mountain.
Let´s just hope that there will be no flood in the future...