Marquis Barlor's domain was actually quite in the center of the country- right near the capital. If we were going to take over that- surely the capital was going to interfere now that we'd declared war.
On our way- we had to at least squash eight noble's territories. The smaller lords would pretty much be on the sidelines so there wasn't much to do with them but larger ones would surely put up a fight… after all, we were against the country. Our neighbors meanwhile would just let us pass- so that wasn't a concern there.
We still sent messengers to each and every domain signaling our protocol for this war. And what we'd do to our opposers and allies.
So far-
Nothing happened.
Yeah- we were about to depart- we were literally about to depart and yet- nothing happened.
Most of them didn't even get back to me… mostly because they couldn't. communications weren't instant anyway.
I couldn't really count on my allies that much either.