Given the border adjacency and the incessant comparisons as Lands of the Brave, conflicts and discord between the two sides were almost an inevitability.
Yet, no matter what, Mitra had been the great hero that ended the war. The Mitra Kingdom was thus treated with favor by the Divine Race, and the Empire couldn't overtly act against the Kingdom—not without breach of decorum and reason.
Therefore, past conflicts between the Kingdom and the Empire were confined to minor border skirmishes that never escalated too far.
Without such a state of affairs, the Empire would never have had the opportunity to arrange a marital alliance with Tielle's mother, right?
It was only because the hatred between them was not yet openly acknowledged.
The relationship between the Kingdom and the Empire plummeted to an all-time low following the large-scale assassination in the Royal Capital a decade ago.
Harvis had said as much.
