The Ligirian Empire on the eve of war with the Kingdom of Vangor. At exactly this time, Count Irridar tan Abbay Toh Rangor goes to the Snowy Principality to found his House there and help Princess Tora-ile take the ducal throne. The agents of the Younger Houses of the principality have stolen a decoy princess, and, not knowing about the substitution, are ready to present her to the High Council of the Senior Houses—thereby discrediting the count. In the Snowy Principality, tensions have escalated and threaten to spill into civil war. The side of the Younger Houses is backed by forest elfar. The count desperately needs this alliance not to happen, and he obtains from the Great Khan of orcs that he send a delegation to the High Council of the Senior Houses with a proposal for an alliance in the coming civil war—together with the combined forces of forest elfars and the Younger Houses of the Snowy Principality…