>>5917587Captain-General
>The Promethean Valley was reinforced, the Stag Duke would be foolish to try to enter it. All he could was isolate it from the Mammoth Basin.>The South had been ravaged by a flood that led to a sudden decentralization of Imperial Authority. The Heavenly Empire was united as one force no longer but as many smaller factions with aligning interests. The many factions throughout the South wouldn't take kindly to an upstart northerner invading their newfound territory, and may even use it as a pretext to invade the North to "enforce the Emperor's Will".>The immediate adversary in the South was the Governor of the Stairway Pass, the former seat of the kingdom that oppressed the Swamplings. Not much was known about his motives, other than holding onto the pass that connected North and South on the eastern edge of the Great Ridge. The Captain-General need not defeat or capture the Stairway Pass to continue south, but the governor's forces can very well threaten any supply line head further south if he chose to do so.>Making contact with whatever remained with the Vulcan Hearthdom would not be easy, neither should it be a primary concern. The Vulcan Royalty had escaped to the Basin like you have, their priestesses responsible for the weapons and armor every warrior now armed themselves with. There doesn't remain the Hearthdoms of old, only scattered clans of varying degrees of loyalty to their old masters.All of the Hearthdom Royals fled to the basin. What's left are their vassals who are fighting over control in the power vacuums. It is up to you to either guarantee their autonomy and upset the royals back in the basin, subjugate them and take them as vassals for yourself and upset the royals back in the basin, or return them to their old masters.
