At the Crown Prince’s private solar inside the Shadowpeak Citadel, the main fortress of House Blackmoor, Crown Prince Alaric Vaelen Thaloria sat beside his table, reading the reports of the blasphemous and sacrilegious actions done by the Second Prince and his supporters inside the Philippa Hamilton Theater recently. He seethed with annoyance while reading the reports. His right hand curled into a fist. His expression darkened, with his teeth clenched in anger, and annoyance at the blatant disrespect and disregard of Second Prince Theron Valeheart Thaloria against House Blackmoor and the Holy Church. That insolent Second Prince dares to disrespect me and the House of my mother and my uncle. He dares to disrespect the Holy Church, and everything the Holy Church stands for. He shall rue his actions, and I shall make it clear that the Holy Church and House Blackmoor aren't entities to be trifled with, and made mock of. Crown Prince Alaric thought to himself as he dipped his quill pen

Inside Winterkeep, a lot of people hired by the personal assistants of the new Frostmark Provincial Secretaries to man the offices of the Frostmark Provincial Secretaries are busy typing away direct orders through their modified electric typewriters which had an autocorrect function built in to delete mistakenly typed words on the paper and had the soft keyboards of gaming computers, powered by the fusion of steam, metal magic, mental magic, fire magic, and thunder magic, to their counterparts out in the field, since Prince Cain didn't tolerate idle pen pushers who talked about royal rules and bureaucratic protocols all day. Prince Cain expected real, swift results, and he didn't care how it’s done, so long as the modernization of Frostmark Province is swift and drastic, and could be felt by the residents of Frostmark Province. Prince Cain is currently inside the 1st Frostmark Land Forces Barracks, watching the former knights who chose to sign up for the Frostmark Land Forces prac

News quickly spread all over Thaloria and beyond regarding the successful defense of Frostmark Province against the shadowbeasts that usually come stampeding and rampaging during the winter in the North on an annual basis, and how the rumored legendary protector beasts of the North showed up, and turned the tide of the battle. As a result, Houses Caelora, Solaria, Krakenfell, Topwells, Dragonfyre, Seafyre, and even the royal House of Thaloria clamored to be able to use the same weapons, and modern tools, vehicles, and equipment that Frostmark Province enjoyed, save for House Blackmoor, which called those modern tools and equipment as sacrilegious and irreverent. Envoys were seen travelling back and forth from all over Thaloria to Frostmark, each of them trying to change Prince Cain's mind with sweet words, flattery, and in extreme cases, the most dishonest and opportunistic envoys used outright bribery, jests and half-truths, but all of those efforts fell flat on their faces. At firs

The Crown Prince, Prince Alaric Vaelen Blackmoor-Thaloria, is on the way to Hamilton Province, along with his entire entourage, which consisted of knights, lords bannermen, and ladies, with servants to see to their every need in every step of the way. “ I believe someone is missing from our entourage, my lords and ladies. “ Prince Alaric jested to the lords bannermen, ladies and knights who sat inside the swift horse-drawn carriage together with him. “ Shall I order the carriage to stop, and send out a search party of knights and trained huntsmen with bloodhounds, then, to find who is missing, Your Highness? “ Sir Rowan Blackmoor, the knight in charge of the household knights of House Blackmoor, and Prince Alaric’s fifth degree cousin, asked Prince Alaric. “ There's no need to trouble yourself, Sir Rowan. It was meant as a jest, my lord. I believe that person is now in the Sunspire Citadel atop her dragon. She was never a patient girl. “ The lords bannermen, knights, and ladies

News quickly got wind to the major Houses all over Thaloria, namely House Solara, House Hamilton, House Storm, House Dragonfyre, House Seafyre, House Caelora, even the Thaloria Royal House, House Krakenfell, and House Topwells, of the finished items, weapons, vehicles and machines from Frostmark Province, after the Applied Magics & Science Research, headed by Lady Sarah Astor, announced the unveiling of new, upgraded versions of the items, weapons, machines, and vehicles after putting finalizing touches to what used to be prototypes, to the general public in a grand 2nd Magics & Science Expo held at the Meadowbrook outpost city, where the main fortress of House Greengrass, one of the lords bannermen of the third Prince, is located. As expected, there is no love lost between the Third Prince and House Blackmoor, since House Blackmoor, along with the Holy Church, stayed aloof, and called on the “ fellow citizens of Thaloria to resist these… heretical upgrades and ideas from the waywar