The Valley of Reeds has existed in an isolated vacuum of politics for a thousand years, with power and peace being carefully balanced between the dominant dwarves and other species that make up its borders. Yet a human’s suicide from half a world away and the unending ambitions of a young gnoll hated by their family begins a series of events that promises to plunge the valley into chaos, from which a melancholic hermit is forced out of self isolation to practice retired skills once more.  Read along from the dual perspectives of warlords old and new and the lessons and memories that are to follow.