DENTED SHIELD CASTLE
1014 AF LIGHTMONTH
Through the cold and the rain of the night, a messenger came banging on the castle gate.
His hair and clothes were sodden, but the letter he carried was dry as the desert sands, sheltered under his coat.
The castle guards spotted the man and reported him immediately to Henry Palais, but before they could exchange a single word the messenger fled, leaving nothing but the letter behind.
Alderam and his son Harald had left Dented Shield and traveled to the north to fight the remaining noble houses, and Henry had been appointed regent in their absence.
They had blocked the Vermont's trade to Vern, so they in turn had blocked Dented Shield's trade to the rest of the nation. Since the Vermont's controlled the west, south and east it wasn't hard to do.
And that also means they were cut off from Vangua and many other nations in the South.