The year is 355AE. The Long War has ended, but its shadow lingers across Oléon’s scorched fields and the hollowed coffers of Corrington and Mardier. In Mardier, the Crown bleeds gold and answers with burdens. The new Temple Tax, levied against Nornian faithful in the Carolean Pale, has fanned old fires. In defiance, the priest Birger Jung has nailed his Reinland these to the cathedral doors, proclaiming an independent state the manifest destiny of the Karlomans. Corrington, humble