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** Let's not discuss Elminster's brilliant idea of ''letting'' the Tuigan Horde rampage across the Heartlands, because God forbid that Cormyr actually do anything horrible like allying with other good and neutral nations to form a temporary mutual defense pact. Fortunately, in perhaps the only example in the setting of Elminster not getting his way, everybody ignored him and went with Azoun's plan instead.
*** Tuigans attacked Thay, were let go alive on condition of joining the next war on Thay's side. Which is how they were "invading Thesk": got kicked out of Rashemen so hard that Red Wizards had to part a lake to save them. Still dangerous, but after two meatgrinders like this in a row, there was a reasonable doubt whether to panic. On the other hand, Zhents got an excellent chance to infiltrate a great area, and used it.
**** Indeed, the Zhentilar managed to infiltrate Thesk so hard that all the troops they stationed there went native and they and their children are now living happy new lives as Theskian militia, miners, and farmers.
*** Cormyr is frequently seen as a domineering and grasping state and isn't trusted much, especially in Dales ''and'' after the "inclusion" of Tilverton. [[Properly Paranoid|For good reasons]], as ''Shadow of the Avatar'' shows. Obarskyrs themselves tend to act as a redeeming feature, but still. And of course...
{{quote|Never before in the history of this fair realm have so many owed so much to the coffers of the king. Never fear but that he'll come collecting in short order...and his price shall be the lives of his debtors, in some foreign war or other. He'll call it a Crusade or something equally grand: but those who die in Cormyr's colors will be just as dead as if he'd called it a Raid To Pillage, or a Head Collecting Patrol. It is the way of kings to collect in blood.| Albaertin of Marsember, ''A Small But Treasonous Chapbook''}}
**** Of course, this chapbook entirely fails to explain why the king's allegedly imperialistic adventure collected no tribute, colonized no new lands, didn't even collect any loot, and was funded almost entirely by donations and volunteers. Cormyr didn't even ''conscript'' for the Tuigan Crusade; everybody who went along was either a volunteer, a hired mercenary, or from the military forces provided by various allies. IIRC, Azoun didn't even levy a war tax.
** Lathander seems to be a bigger meddler than all mortal wizards put together. First he causes the Dawn Cataclysm, then allows himself to be fooled into attempt to "fix" some of its consequences...
*** There was supposed to be some general chill in relations after the Dawn Cataclysm, and he got some troubles for the latter, but [[The Pollyanna|he's freakin' Lathander]].
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