Location:Pavilion / Obsidian Academy / Various
Date/Time:Ashwhisper through Emberrise, 9939-9940 AZI
Realm:Lower Realm
The frost came early that year.
Late Ashwhisper — the last month of autumn — and the training yard walls were white by dawn. Jayde stood at the map table in the Pavilion, updating Canirr's latest reconnaissance data. Three more Temple recruitment routes identified. A collection point in the southern province that hadn't been on any previous report. A recruiter's name — the same man appearing in four different villages across a two-month span.
She marked the routes in red chalk. The map was getting dense. Six months of intelligence layered over geography — transport corridors, collection points, recruiter movements, Temple outpost rotations. The picture of a harvesting operation drawn in patient, overlapping detail.
