The Year of the Falling Falcon has but 2 days remaining. While most of the world prepares to celebrate the the completion of the harvest and the respite that Eäróniel's Kiss provides, the city of Seldermoor hopes the rapidly cooling temperatures will lessen the fire in the blood of the armies outside its gates. Duchess Elina Parnth has conducted a tactically brilliant fighting retreat in the face of the more powerful armies of Sanria Veris and Tenris Melfir. Numerous skirmishes have been fought in frost covered pines of the duchy, with no clear victor being evident.
Fearing a two-front war, Duke Melfir has been forced to transfer, via airship and magic, several legions back to Dimmersdel as the increasing (and to date, empty) rhetoric from Alestia heats up.
The bulk of the Seldermoor defenses (6 divisions) have been deployed in a fortified arc about one half-mile from the city's walls. Numerous manifests walk the streets of Seldermoor as Duchess Parnth has consolidated her magical defenses there to quickly dispatch them as necessary. The remainder of her forces (4 divisions) are divided between Seldermoor itself and along roads to the south and east of the city. Duchess Veris has 18 divisions roughly 30 miles to the north of the city, with Duke Melfir's 25 divisions massed to the northwest, about 15 miles from the city.