It is indicated that the Five Nations Confederate Lords integrate a conglomerate, and so a link is formed between them.
The figurative language is introduced when a heavy burden or a hard-to-handle situation stands before the Confederate Lords, and these issues are represented as a tree (a heavy object) that falls over the Lords' link.
The purpose of this metaphore is to declare that the link joining the Confederate Lords must endure against all things.
Metaphors and similes are used to relate one thing to another; this sentence is not doing that. Parallelism is when similar devices are used in sentences to convey one story.
“Tricking” and “misleading” are both synonyms and they both have different connotations... “tricking” has more of a negative tone while “misleading” has more of a neutral tone.
