Drakken and Galfen move against my budding Empire and all of the available family move into action to protect our settlements and defend ourselves. Yneir arrives unexpectedly to help us manage the situation and Magdalena sends help from afar in the form of an Imperial Advisor, her brother. Myrtaceae the Red Mist is known to all as Uncle Red but to me as Grandmaster, revealing himself to be the elven Master of my own Mistress. With his help and Yneir's direction we avoid severe losses but continue to be struck by dwarves, trolls, and humans on all fronts including Whitewater and Lone Mountain Keep. I encounter a scion of the Fisherman and end his fate but not before he can kill Nisset and Brinnon, old friends in Whitewater. When I return to Solace (one wing savaged) Drakken has been captured and ravaged by the Beast himself, no longer posing a threat. We close out the battles with Uncle vowing to handle Galfen and then go onwards to bring support to Mistress in the Empire. Still...we have a wedding, a coronation, familial oaths, and a delegation back to the Empire to plan.