Today we started organizing a festival. We are doing this for a couple reasons, two noteworthy ones. The first is to improve morale, something we definitely do need. The second one is to root out spies and other hostiles in the group we just picked up. A festival would be an ideal time to strike, and if we are prepared for it then we can both minimize damage and get rid of spies. Or at least that is the idea.

This isn't exactly something that requires my help, all of the preparations were done with plenty of time to spare. Enough space to fit nearly everyone in our empire and enough food and drink and meat to feed them all for a month if rationed liberally. There is no chance of us running out of anything. Preacher has even prepared a couple events.

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I won't be attending, and neither will my inner circle. We are too valuable to waste here and our time is better spent elsewhere. It is more important that we take as much land and as many cities as we can before the enemy manages to recover from their recent injuries than root out some spies, and expanding my forest myself is the best way to do that while most of my paladins are spy hunting.

Which is exactly what I spent my time doing today, expanding my forest as rapidly as possible. I have no doubt that the enemy can recover from any blow we deal them with enough time and aid from their patron, so time is of the essence. Especially now that we actually have a reasonable population size. With that and a solid strike against the enemy right now we could win this war within the year.

I'm actually getting excited.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.