Whatever we end up goin' with, unifying all three regions makes more sense than trying to get 'em all to get along as separate players. Even if Nama and Youmi manage to whip everyone into shape and keep the peace for their lifetimes, we're talkin' two queendoms with their backs to a natural barrier, and a big, fat prize in the middle. It's a pressure cooker that's gonna explode sooner or later, and it's gonna ruin a lot of lives when it happens.

But if those Empresses don't want to marry each other for whatever reason, there might be another way. It'd require all three rulers to cooperate pretty heavily, though: Nama takin' oversight over the Flowerlands and the Crashing Wave, and namin' Youmi her heir.

I'd recommend some measures to defang Nama's advisors, either way. Back in Japan, during the Tokugawa, they had somethin' called the 'hostage system'. Long story short, the shogunate reigned in problem players by requiring either the big shots or their families live under their thumb at all times. If the Crashing Wave and Celestial Mountains traded their advisors' families, for instance, they might think twice about calling for war.