The Treason in the Shadows

The Grand Midwinter Unity Banquet was meant to mark the dawn of a new era of unity between the Northern Empire and the western mountain packs. Inside the Great Hall of Drakonspire, hundreds of Lycan lords, highborn ladies in velvet gowns, and foreign Alpha envoys sat at long banquet tables adorned with roasted boar, winter fruits, and carven crystal candelabras. Yet beneath the laughter and string music, the atmosphere was…