The Threshold of Arc 3

Three days later, in the royal war room of Drakonhold, General Soryn laid a series of urgent reconnaissance dispatches upon the map table before the King and Queen. 'The scouts from the Western Marches have returned, Your Majesties,' Soryn reported, his expression grave and focused. 'Duke Moros has learned of Chancellor Vane's fall and the failure of the ambush at Aethelgard. He has mobilized twelve thousand mercenary soldiers and forty…