Military: War
After the initial failure, the druids called back their forces to discuss strategy, however, when the third archdruid was elected he demanded action to be taken. The druids quickly turned almost all of their forces towards this threat in an attempt to establish contact with the lizardfolk and understand what happened.
After the first few defeats, many high-ranking druids believed the lizardfolk messenger to have been a ruse in order to weaken the order. However, with the election of the third archdruid, the tone quickly shifted from uncertainty to a need to go in and either help the lizardfolk or kill all the qlippoths themselves. The new larger forces took the qlippoths by surprise and they were quickly able to smash through their lines and meet up with the lizardfolk whom joined the fighting.