Latest News from the Snorthia Conflict

(Year 233, Fall) There has been very few news regarding the ongoing Snorthia-Mazaloom culture conflict. Early Spring the Royal Palace Chief Attendant, Miss Patricia Maiden (52), accepted an invitation from Emperor Orchor of Snorthia. She has been accused for starting the conflict by recognizing her late mother as the mothel of a paintet portrait, «Moon Liza», that was claimed by the Emperor to be a very old national treasure. Now they claimed Miss Maiden to travel to Snorthia to help solving the problem. She was warned, but insisted on going. And now it seems like nobody heard from her ever since.

No, it is not Miss Maiden in that hopscotch.

As result of the conflict, Mazaloonians is no longer granted access to the empire, to which we share a long border. Our Winter sports athletes can still not visit Mt Komorebi to practice - Miss Maiden was a rare exception.

Occasionally a Mazaloom friendly local sent a photo where they thought they observed Miss Maiden, but similarities were shortly ditched - it was not her.

- The pictures turned out to be of local residents, says Prime Minister Wilder. - We are aware that Snorthia might have orchestrated the whole photo flooding in order to create even more chaos. We heard from Miss Maiden a couple weeks after her departure. Lord Rapfelder, who has many friends within our aristocracy, was Maiden's contact during the first days, but he has later informed us that he doesn't know what happened after Miss Maiden attended a meeting at the emperial palace in Mt. Komorebi.

The Cabinet is now planning another attempt to get in touch with Emperor Orchor. - We will present numerous claims, of course including Miss Maiden to return home immediately. We are also looking into having someone replace her at the Royal Palace. Making Miss Maiden less important to our royal palace might help her in this case.

Another nation has decided to interfer with the conflict, Sea Nation. Sea and Mazaloom have a strong and positive relation, and we don't know for sure whether Tazal King Salomar of Sea initiated this himself, or if he was asked to.

- Sea kingdom asks Emperor Orchor of Snorthia to allow Miss Maiden to return safely to her normal life in Mazaloom. I will urge the Emperor to lower the this conflict to a level where we can meet and discuss. That painting was important to your culture, but it's hard for me to see how Miss Maiden can be blamed. I also like to remind the Emperor that not only is our emperial and royal families closely connected through distant family lines, but also Miss Maiden is related to my family as her mother was my sister, Princess Limia. And our late mother, Queen Aurora of Sea, was the sister of Emperor Orchor's father, Emperor Ludvort of Snorethia. In other words, Your excellency Emperor Orchor: Miss Maiden is the daughter of your Cousin, Princess Limia!

It remains to see whether a cousin's genealogy lesson can change the minds of an Emperor.