From the writings of Leoni Keln, Sorcerer King of the drowned lands of Dered
Adyma takes too much liberty.. we need the specters stirred up occasionally, the other kingdoms focused on the Blightlands keeps them from interfering with my island kingdom, but he's drank too deeply of the poisoned well, so to speak. The power of Belzaor is poison.
He's studied under Phanavaom directly, the Lord Marshal of the specters, though he believes I'm unaware. It's concerning that the undying shadow would take an interest in my apprentice at all. I'll need to consider the implications, find the best manner to bend this development to my purposes.
I'll make no alliances with the other nations or the blighted, but I'll play them against each other. Only Dered need emerge from this conflict.