Thank you for your post, Tsavonglah, but you make Mhaldor's volitions
for their war seem halfway normal. The real reason they have declared
war on Cyrene is because they have fabricated in their own minds a sort
of veto power over whom other city-states choose as their patrons. They
have created a delusion that just because they have enemied a God, that
they may enforce such a veto power on other cities. Upon finding that
they really are powerless at choosing another city's divine patron, they
throw a temper tantrum in the form of unprovoked attacks on that city.
In
this case it is Cyrene, but in actuality, it could have happened to any
city that had coincidentally chosen Phaestus as patron.

I can't foresee with certainty how this war will reconcile, but
hopefully
those responsible for the aggression will begin to regain their faculty
for telling fiction from nonfiction, and realize that they do not have
-- nor are entitled to -- the power to choose the divine patron of any
organization other than their own.

Respectfully,
Epich

Penned by my hand on the 6th of Valnuary, in the year 320 AF.