After the Company leaves Bridgetown they make their way to Wissenval. There a great council is held to determine what course of action should be taken. It is decided that Palifair and the White Stone must reach the city of Lothar and there crown Vesten the Emperor Returned. Along with two Druids and Palifair’s friends from the Mark the Guardians, representatives from Tillenia and Neutria will go with them. Before they reach Lothar they decide they must first convince the Tillenians and the Neutrian boatmen to join in a grand alliance with the Empire of Lothangia against the dark kingdom of Allomania. But before they can cross the great Wolf-Staak Forest and reach Neutria, they find themselves in the middle of war, waged by trogs armies against the Tillenians.