The kingdom's diplomatic corps — a small, underfunded division of the Crown's administrative apparatus that had historically dealt with trade agreements and border disputes rather than wartime alliance-building — deployed its first wartime diplomatic mission on the twenty-fifth of Scorchend.
The mission's objective was simple in concept and complex in execution: convince the neutral gods — the divine entities on the western continent who were neither part of the Green Accord nor allied with the Sovereign Dominion — that their interests were served by the kingdom's survival.
