[@VitaVitaAR] Fair enough! I mostly meant for these different ideas to throw in flavor rather than to rewrite anything major. It's your universe, and you have veto power over any and every detail I put up there.

If you'd like me to strip it down to the bare minimum:
1.) A battle-dancer from the stix comes to join the Knights and regain favor.
2.) A healer/Paladin returns from a troubled land and is assigned to help the Rose Knights.
3.) A trainee from an isolated area of the Kingdom creates a new life and discovers her ancestor's roots.

And I quite agree re: the border, mostly it's meant as a "something funny is going on up there" adventure hook ^///^