>>5928822>>5928909>>5928917The Rex, along with his advisors and several prominent leaders present, wishes to confer a greater status upon her. With the consent of his council, and in the spirit of fostering continued cooperation amongst the wardens and mainland, he will elevate her to a regional governor status, and along with that comes the caveat that she is welcome in the capital to address him with any issues the wardens are facing personally.
Though he is unable to say it aloud due to the company present, he very much desires to spend more time with her---preferably alone. In his growing boredom, she is very much representative of everything he cannot have and thus is compelled to want, especially with his seers, councilors and bride to be doing all they can to keep him from spending time with her.
Yet, it seems his desire to break the curse of his boredom is destined to become a "be careful what you wish for" sentiment, for a scout runs into the capital with dire news. Advance scouts in the grasslands of the west, scouting for resources and continually hunting for demonic prey in those lands (ever since the hyena fiends of last age were encountered) were suddenly attacked, slaughtered to a man save for those that managed to escape.
Scouting in the area has revealed the presence of other half-elves, militaristic and setting up forts in the west, past the grasslands. They took no prisoners and attacked without mercy or provocation, though they did speak our tongue. They were brutal; even their scouts were savage warriors. They continued to chase the survivors across the grasslands merely to kill them, as though hunting them for sport. Only a fraction of the scouts currently on patrol in the west returned without having been slaughtered.
The council chambers become alight with debate. We must send out an army! We must send the dragons! We must meet them in talks! We must scout them out and learn of who and what they are---their numbers, their capabilities! We must attack, we must capture, we must respond in some way!
The Rex sits back as he realizes he will soon long for the days when he was merely bored---a new neighbor has been found, and the first meeting does not bode well.
>What is to be done about this new potential threat? How do we respond to this aggression? 