Board Thread:Rebirth: Story Time/@comment-24602092-20141028203722/@comment-1875854-20141028210346

I don't believe Uzu would be an ally of the Land of Craters. Not that I don't want the challenge to write about losing a good ally, but I'm not sure if it's probable for them to be good trading allies at the very least. From what Serk said before, the Land is located behind the Land of Bears.

Rebirth Geography

That would mean, the developing nation of Whirlpools would be having trade through many nations who may or may not be allies. Uzu is noted to be off the coast of the Land of Fire, so the Crater Country is very far away from us. I believe it would cost us more to trade with them, then we would benefit from, no matter what they gave us. As a developing nation with advanced technology, we wouldn't want to stress the money we have like that. While we have incorporated many nations, including the Land of Sky with its airborne tech into a respective Island Chain Empire essentially an alliance of sorts, I don't think we would have been trading allies with this nation.

I'm requesting that we become neutral so we (Green and I at the moment, but the whole nation and empire) can play the role of a village trying to obtain more knowledge, and by extension power. This would be done for attempting for scrolls.