Babbit Alliance

The Babbit Alliance is a military alliance that was formed between House Lapin and House Chiroptera during The Second Word War. Following a short-lived war between the two Houses due to a mutual misunderstanding, Queens Sable Aradia and Siobhan the Writer negotiated a truce in the Great Library, and indeed, formed an alliance to support each other in the event of military threats to their Houses. When House Chiroptera fell later in the Second Word War, Queen Siobhan offered her fealty to Lapin for the remainder of the conflict, but Queen Sable reminded her of their agreement, and the mutual alliance between the two, along with the alliance between House Tiki and House Sauropoda, later formed the backbone of the Grand Alliance.

History

When Queen Siobhan was killed suddenly in a car crash in September of 2022, the Babbit Alliance was reaffirmed by Queen Tara upon her coronation. However, the Alliance was immediately tested. When House Chiroptera fell to the Horde in The Third Word War, for reasons that seemed unclear to outsiders, Chiroptera fled to House Mollusca for sanctuary, and offered their support there instead of to Lapin. The Bat and Bunny Queens later said that this was mutually understood and pre-arranged prior to the event for strategic and tactical, rather than political, reasons. However, when House Lapin chose to offer their support to House Sauropoda upon their fall, and the other members of the Woodland Family Alliance followed suit, some Chiropterans believed that the terms of the Alliance required Lapin to go with them to support Mollusca, and were angry they did not. This led to tension between the two Houses, and endangered the Babbit Alliance, and this was not successfully resolved until The Fourth Word War. Today, the Babbit Alliance continues to hold firm, although it is understood that this, and other alliances between individual Houses, are superseded by the terms and needs of The Treaty of the Great Houses.