I've always found it fun when you're playing a strategy game and all of the other groups in the game are at war with one another and you are the only one that is not involved.  A lot of the time it lets you get ahead while everyone else just kills each other.

Well in Depths of Peril there is another interesting side twist.  Unlike other games, the enemies aren't way off somewhere else.  They are all inside of the same town that you are.  So when they fight you can almost always watch if you want.

Like yesterday, I was buying some stuff from the armorsmith and overheard a lot of battle sounds.  First I was surprised because the sounds didn't seem to be coming from any of the covenant houses and the town wasn't being attacked or anything.  So I wander over to see what is going on and right there between two of the covenant houses is two covenants in a pretty big battle.  It wasn't even a raid but had both full covenants and most of the house guards in the battle.  It was actually pretty cool just to sit there and watch them battle it out.

I would guess that both covenants sent someone out to talk to an NPC in town at the same time and got into a small fight.  And then that small fight grew into the battle I saw as the rest of each covenant came out of their houses to help in the fight.  The lesson from this is: if you are at war with your neighbor that only lives 100 feet from you, be careful when you leave your house :)