The great mahogany war-table of Blackwood Keep, once strewn with maps of territorial conquest, blood-stained knives, and empty ale horns, had been transformed into an altar of civic renewal. Draped across the dark wood was a runner of ivory linen embroidered with the silver stars of House Valerius. Arranged neatly around the table were seven carved chairs of equal height—the physical manifestation of the New Sovereign Charter. No longer did…
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