Regarding Kormyre

I believe it would be a regrettable decision for us to leave Travance unguarded while we move to quell an insurrection. It would be a good move to gather the lands and form a war council.
Discussions of provisions, man power, and tactics must be held.
If it is a seige, food stores must be bolstered and water sources protected.

While I am pleased to see many of us preparing for the worst with respect to an all-out war with this rebel faction, I believe more can be done before we even begin to Assume that this will all end in warfare. Subtlety, Scouting, Espionage, and cleverness may just win us the day here. Information may be our greatest weapon here. What ideas have we in determining where our enemy is stationed? Do they have a base of operations within Kormyre's borders? Do they have the aid of outside influences? What are their tactics/strategems for fighting not only the armies of Kormyre, but of Travance as well? Finally, one question has been plaguing me this past week: Why send the spy to Travance? Unless they had a reason to be there, The spy was risking everything coming to our lands, especially when they could've just as easily sent an actual orc commander without risk of information leaking. He was compromised, and now not only do we know potentially one of his benefactors, but that the rebellion exists at all. Why take the risk to alert one of Kormyre's most powerful military forces of such goings-ons, namely us Travancians? Either whatever they came into town for was worth potentially losing their spy, OR They wanted us to know this information, either to goad us into warfare knowing full well they have some unknown advantage, or to lead us into a trap.

I would advise we take caution before we rush to prepare for warfare when we do not truly grasp the situation we find ourselves in presently.

With All Due Respect,

DJANGO

As you mentioned travance is a force not to be trifled with. We may just be the first target in their conquest.
I agree further intelligence is needed, but it does not hurt to be prepared.

Allyce,

It was my fault for not addressing my comment at anyone in particular and a flawed assumption--as most are.

Jericho and Django,

We are all agreed on the need for prudence, gentlemen, except that spy. Of course, is it not in the very nature of their business to be risky? No one is guaranteed success even with years of experience.

~Nalick

Jericho and Nalick,

I agree that War with this rebellious force may become unavoidable, and to that effect yes we should prepare our defenses and troops, etc.

And while I agree that, yes, a spy's work by it's very nature is fraught with danger and risk, Imagine for a moment that, instead of this spy, they had sent an actual orc commander. They would've accomplished exactly what they did that night, attacked us, had a (relatively) talented military commander on the field, with the added bonus of none of their secrets being spilled if they lost and us remaining unaware of the powers at play. We would have had no reason to believe that there were any sinister forces at play; just a simple, if well-armed, squadron of orcs and goblins assaulting our proper, not an unusual occurrence in our lands.

Instead they made the choice to send a Spy DISGUISED as an Orc Commander.

I ask you: Why? Why make this choice? What was this force trying to accomplish?

If they were merely testing our defenses or our military might, a Non-Spy would have sufficed. Instead now we can take action against them and know things about who hired these mercenary forces to begin with. The Rebel force has now been given a huge disadvantage, as we now know they are coming. And all because of the decision to send a Spy where a Warrior Captain would have been more appropriate. So unless there was something specific in the Proper they were after, something that only a well-trained spy could have gotten to, or if they wanted us to know of their existence for some inane reason, it makes no sense. Either A. we are missing some vital clue or information, or B. we are playing right into their hands.

Tread Carefully,

DJANGO

If there is a person who seeks the royal throne of Kormyre, then they would go through legal and just means in order to pursue a claim. Only one who has a tenuous or false claim would feel the need to take the throne by force - or someone who seeks to take the throne by force with no legal claim whatsoever.
But Django brings up very pertinent questions as to why this claimant is using these particular means. I agree that things do not "add up." Beside the possibilities that "we are missing some vital clue or information" (a reasonable hypothesis), or that "we are playing into their hands" (also a possibility), there might also be a corollary to the latter in that the information we have is, in fact, misinformation, or (a less likely possibility) that those in question are highly incompetent.
Either way, we should seek out more information ourselves before things might come upon us at the next Baronial Feast.
There is a possibility that some in the Church of Kormyre may have made observations regarding these events. I can ask the Pontiff and the Cardinals if they have heard news from the lower clergy in Kormyre.