[b]Lodi [/b]
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With winter's end many men would know that a harvest season would soon begin. But elsewhere the changing of seasons meant something entirely different. Some time ago and far away the Asrai held their court, until Orion eventually awoke to do the bidding of Kurnous, revered of the Wood Elves. The Wild Hunt began, and now it reached lands of the Empire. How they passed so many lands to reach this point without being intercepted was a mystery, but a far greater one was why then, if they can move as such, did they now have to ask the Lord of Lodi for permission to cross his lands? 

For indeed, some villagers would speak of a great column of foreigners riding stags quietly going through the night, until one such pointy-eared rider would arrive at the Castle of the Lord hoping for a quick audience, his request simple; that the men of the Empire not interfere with the Asrai as they passed through. 
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[b]The Realm of Azzsar[/b][hr]
The realm of Azzsar had only now begun to stir with their Lord's recent awakening. But there were those who sensed these things, even if inelegantly. Whispers went through the darkness of the mountains, whispers that reached a great many ears that all made use of their new knowledge in oh so different ways. 

But the most immediate result Azzsar himself would notice - perhaps informed by his most sapient of serfs - was the lingering of giant spiders at the edges of his realm, of red eyes glowing in the dark that could not be accounted for by anyone under the Dark Lord's command. 
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[b]The Duchy of Gisoreux[/b][hr]
To the lands of the Duke would appear a wandering wizard. He was not the typical practitioner of magics of Brettonnia, but he was rather a more Imperial looking man. The more cosmopolitan people who had seen him would be divided in describing him as a wizard of Shadows or of Beasts, but they would certainly agree he had the look of a college boy, what with the beard not to his knees and still not quite grey. Some would say small miracles would come follow him, but he was not here to spread these wonders. 

He would state to any he passed that he had a most important business to attend to, that he had to speak to the Lord of Gisoreux with a very important matter.