The final stage of the Roquarian War has not started the way King Gillan anticipated. Zana has made the first move and seized a critical base situated on the border of the two countries. The alliance the king has so carefully formed is threatened not only by this loss, but by the attacks Zana sends to the countries who have thrown in their lot with him.
With the alliance threatening to crumble, Ferras feels his own sanity falling with it as he questions the future that lies before him. The prophecy he seems to hear tells him he is doomed. And there is nothing he can do about it. As everyone seems to look to him for leadership, he just feels his approaching fate all the more clearly and his hopelessness to fight against it.
With suspicion falling on allies and potential enemies lurking around every turn, the war may not get very far before Zana crushes it forever under her tyrannical regime.