Vrenn's second briefing came three days after the War Room council — this time delivered to the expanded War Cabinet, which included the original council members plus the Military Command structure: Marshal Boreth Gorvaxis (Ministry of War), Admiral Serath (Navy), and the six provincial garrison commanders who had traveled to Ashenveil on emergency orders.
The briefing room was larger — the Iron Citadel's Grand Strategy Chamber, one floor above the War Room, with a table that could seat thirty and a map wall that displayed not just the continent but the surrounding oceans, the distant shape of Korthane to the east, and the unmapped southern continent of Vethara below the equatorial line. The map's scope was a statement: this war was not local.
