I’d like to see her stay with Hiactance and my group for a while, at least. For one it would help with later convincing other characters if we want to have them switch sides. You could also use her father as her reason for leaving later. Maybe she stayed around so much mostly because of him in order to try and help him to be as he once was, but during the course of the RP he only becomes more and more paranoid/distraught and she can’t see anything left of what he once was. Thus the kingdom could be essentially ‘lost.’ What do you think?

I do think they are going to meet up. In fact I was nearly counting on a battle between them at some point. Not to mention if everyone’s not dead by the time we bring in an outside threat they’ll probably start to get a lot friendlier. Also portions of the groups will likely have a good few opportunities to intersect each other.