And because of all of that nonsense, the Equestrian nobles in the north, just south of the Crystal Empire and on Gethrenia’s relatively small border with Equestria, were following their more southern kin’s example and rattling their own sabres, forcing Johan to move troops to that border to appease his own powerful nobles. Worse than that, High King Aleksander was sending rather politely worded enquires that could basically be boiled down to, ‘What the fuck is going on? You two are being idiots. Stop it!’ And he had been trying, oh All-Maker how he had been trying to rein things in.