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After extensive negotiations, I am pleased to present this Treaty of Friendship between the regions of Ainur and Wintreath to our Citizenry and to our Storting. This treaty is the culmination of months of improving relations between our regions, beginning during last year's Regional Sovereignty Conference in Lazarus. Since then, we have come to the realization that we are both community based regions that believe strongly in the concept of regional sovereignty and aren't afraid to practice it, even in the face of foreign opposition.

This is in spite of our regions' differing alignments, as Ainur is an imperialist region and we are a defender region, which I feel makes this treaty all the more important. At a time when civil discourse between people and alignments is less than stellar, it's important that two regions of different alignments have the respect for each other to still be friends and get along and support each other outside the battlefield. This treaty exemplifies our regional culture of putting people and community above the politics and divisions of gameplay, and if passed will only enhance the communities of both regions.

I feel that this treaty doesn't detract from, but benefits Wintreath's security and cultural interests, and obviously as the person that negotiated it on our end I feel that it's in our region's best interests to pass this treaty. It is my hope that the Storting will give the treaty due consideration and approve it as soon as possible. You can find the treaty text below:

The Treaty of Friendship
between

The Kingdom of Ainur
and
The Frozen Realm of Wintreath

The Parties to this Treaty, in order to further regional cooperation and establish an alliance, agree as follows:

Article 1 - Definitions
1. A subordinate possession shall be defined as a region which a Party has either founded, refounded, or otherwise exercises control over through the subordinate possession's founder nation, and which is not an independent region or subject to the exclusive sovereignty of another region. The Parties shall maintain an up-to-date list of their subordinate possessions for the use of the other Party.

Article 2 - Mutual Recognition of Governments
1. In Ratifying this Treaty, each Party recognises the ratifying Government of the other as the legitimate government of that Party, subject to any such lawful changes of government as may from time to time occur.

Article 3 - Common Defense
1. Neither Party shall participate or support any action taken with the intent to destabilize or overthrow the government of the other Party.
2. Neither Party shall participate in military operations against the other Party's home region or its colonies, vassals or other subordinate possessions.
3. Neither Party shall conduct, promote, encourage, or otherwise support the use of espionage, sabotage, or any other covert action against the other Party.
4. In the event that a Party's home region or subordinate possession becomes founderless, the other Party shall render military assistance in the defense of that region at the request of the leader of their recognized government.
5. The Parties shall share all information related to any known or suspected threats to the security of the home regions, subordinate possessions, and off-site properties of either region.
6. The Parties agree that participation on opposing sides of a military engagement outside either Party's home region or subordinate possessions shall not constitute a violation of this Treaty.
7. The Parties agree not to utilize a third party to circumvent the provisions of this Treaty in any way.

Article 4 - Diplomatic Support
1. The Parties shall endeavour to provide diplomatic support to each other where such support would not conflict with the internal policies of the Parties.

Article 5 - Cultural Activities
1. The Parties shall establish an annual festival celebrating the friendship and amity between the two regions. The festival shall be jointly hosted by the Monarchs of both Parties and shall be held on a date and in a place to be determined by agreement of the Parties, and afterwards shall be hosted by the Parties on a rotating basis.
2. The Parties may optionally consider joint collaboration on the development and implementation of additional events which are commonly held by multiple regions, such as holiday celebrations, in order to improve the quality of the festivities, foster camaraderie between regional communities and reduce the burden of each Party developing its own festivities.
3. Participants of joint events and activities shall follow the laws of the region hosting the event. The host region shall maintain the right to deny or revoke an individual's access to the festival for any reason.

Article 6 - Embassies and Ambassadors
1. Each Party shall establish a designated embassy for the other on its forums and shall provide an Ambassador to the other Party. Each Party will endeavour to keep the other up-to-date on their regional affairs.
2. Each Party's Ambassador shall behave in a respectable manner towards his host region. This includes, but is not limited to obeying regional laws where it is applicable and following any ambassadorial protocol that the host region has already in place.
3. A Party may request that the particular Ambassador sent to them by the other Party be replaced if it considers that that Paragraph 2 of this Article has not been followed by the Ambassador in question.

Article 7 - Termination
1. A Party may terminate the operation of this Treaty by providing a Notice of Termination to the Government of the other Party on that Party's forums. Termination shall take effect seven calendar days after the Notice is provided.
2. If a Notice of Termination is served, the Parties shall endeavour to resolve any differences before the Treaty is terminated.

Article 8 - Commencement
1. The provisions of this Treaty shall become operative following its ratification by both Parties.

Inric Nordrim Kestar (Wintermoot I of Wintreath)
Monarch and Founder of Wintreath

Ahem.

I would again hope that the treaty be introduced and passed through the Underhusen. Another region negotiated this treaty with us in good faith, and it would be disrespectful at best to them if it failed to be introduced.

Ahem.

I would again hope that the treaty be introduced and passed through the Underhusen. Another region negotiated this treaty with us in good faith, and it would be disrespectful at best to them if it failed to be introduced.

What benefit do we gain from this?  We have had very little interaction with Ainur and I think it is a bit of a rush to move to make a treaty with a region we do not know well.

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We didn't have a lot of interaction with Lazarus or The Rejected Realms when we approved those treaties, so I'm not sure why that would matter now. Nonetheless, Ainur is probably the region we're most diplomatically active with. Our embassy in that region is probably one of the most active, I've personally interacted with the region enough to know there are synergies and commonalities, and the fact that the Prince Consort of Ainur has become a Citizen helps to confirm that conclusion to me.

I've already listed the benefits of this treaty in the OP.

We didn't have a lot of interaction with Lazarus or The Rejected Realms when we approved those treaties, so I'm not sure why that would matter now. Nonetheless, Ainur is probably the region we're most diplomatically active with. Our embassy in that region is probably one of the most active, I've personally interacted with the region enough to know there are synergies and commonalities, and the fact that the Prince Consort of Ainur has become a Citizen helps to confirm that conclusion to me.

I've already listed the benefits of this treaty in the OP.

Who is the prince?

How come we have not seen much interaction from them here?

I think this is premature and we should at least host an event with them before we sign some treaty with them.



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Who is the prince?

Aubrey, Prince Consort of Ainur and Owner of the Frostbite Tavern

Who is the prince?

Aubrey, Prince Consort of Ainur and Owner of the Frostbite Tavern

Nailed it.
Now Wintry can I have our Embassy there?

I'm keeping that embassy for myself =3

You just wanna get with Aubrey, you greedy bastard...

There are other guys in Ainur, you know.

Oh so you're even greedier than I originally stated!

There are other guys in Ainur, you know. [emoji14]

so this treaty is solely so Wintermoot can have men?

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We all know how I get off on mutual defense and festival clauses. Oh yeah, baby, gimme your embassy! Yeah! Harder! More!

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We all know how I get off on mutual defense and festival clauses. Oh yeah, baby, gimme your embassy! Yeah! Harder! More!

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[emoji14]

Ainur hasn't done anything much for us though other than send their prince to hit on Wintermoot and share updates with us from what little I can see on my phone.

I am also a bit wary since they are an imperialist raider region.  We have technically opposed them during military action,  no?

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As I said in the OP, our regions have many synergies and have taken common positions in several relevant areas since relations began. Also, a read through the actual treaty will answer your question about opposing each other on military action.