How did we get to this?
The kingdoms of Targen and Arden, historic foes for hundreds of years, suddenly announce an alliance bound by wedlock. In one day, our northern strongpoint in the Southern Coalition suddenly bowed and bent knee to the new Targen king; a ruler our network already blames for the chaos sowed in the territories around him. Worse, the Arden king has ceased responding to the Southern Coalition, all but confirming his turn. So here we are, our Hand of four, redirected from an urgent mission to something even more dire, and ordered to do what we can to sabotage what we hope is a brittle alliance. Here I am, a desperate madman climbing the palace walls, searching for any opening... hoping for any source of information...