The mountain highway wound westward from the Three Rivers basin, climbing into the arid, pine-forested plateaus of the Western Marches. For two centuries, this rugged frontier province had been the private fiefdom of the disgraced Alpha Matthew’s extended cadet branch. Even with Matthew stripped of his titles and exiled to the agricultural communes of Nova Terra, stubborn pockets of reactionary noble resistance lingered in the remote canyon estates, plotting in…
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