Three months after a truce was declared, the Peninsula of Garralucia experienced a brief period of recovery, both economic and political. No attacks, no sanctions and no invasions by any of the four kingdoms. It wasn’t, however, a moment of peace in the courts, whose rulers worked hard to define the course of that war that had lasted eleven years already.
Eron was studying the possibility of invading Selirian territory through the Fortress of Zurin, but he kept it a secret only with his trusted advisers and some lords, fearing that his words would reach the wrong ears. Eron believed in his subjects' loyalty, but he also knew that Nichol could blur certain lines, make people confused and perhaps his campaigns against the traitor were not enough to convince everyone that Nichol was no longe
