...I don't think things with Battle are as dire as they seem. As someone mentioned somewhere, pendulum swings yadda yadda.

I also don't think Thror (or anyone else on the immstaff) is really to blame for the current state of Battle. As an Imm, you make someone leader and generally let them run with it. If they are a no-show, your cabal weakens for a while. And if they let it go too long, you boot them from leadership and give leadership to someone better.

Battle suffered due to a generally no-show leader for a while. That leader would likely have been removed from leadership in relative short order if he hadn't taken matters into his own hands and deleted (and hey, sometimes we just don't have time to play, so props for stepping up and doing so).

I would imagine Battle will have a new mortal leader quite soon and we'll see a lot of applicants flooding into the village.