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After the events of the previous book where the last of the cane strongholds were destroyed by the vord the reaming cane lead by Varg flee to alera.
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Gaius Octavian, the rightful first lord of alera, arrives with the cane off the coast of alera around Antillvs.
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After an unsuccessful attack on Octavian’s forces the Vord queen performs massive water sending in which she speaks to all of the alerians and offers a peaceful surrender on the condition that they never have any children.
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Octavian uses another watersending to announce his presence to all of Alera, and try to get them to keep hope.
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The Vord queen kidnaps the First Lady, Octavian’s mother, to gain leverage over him.
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The legions repurpose the boats and turn them into ice sleds and cross the country as fast as possible.
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In return for a sheet of ice that stretches all the way from Antilvs to Phrygia, Octavian sold the shield wall to the icemen.
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The Vord begin to lay siege to the last stronghold in all of Alera
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Octavian uses furycrafting to destroy the main gate of Riva
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After destroying the food stores of the vord in riva he marches to the Calderon valley on the backs of the cane.
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All of the remaining high lords and lades attack together.
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In a last ditch effort to end the war all of the high lords attack at the same time to try to kill the vord queen.
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The traitor, and former high lady is killed by the high lords as they rescue the queen.
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the first lord arrives at the battle and enters one on one combat with the vord queen.
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the vord queen allmost binds two great furries of the same power that destroied alera imperia
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The first lord defeats the vord queen in combat.
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