Operation ASHFALL was the Ministry of Whispers' covert counterattack — a campaign of sabotage, intelligence disruption, and psychological warfare conducted inside the Green Accord's territory by agents who had been living undercover for years, waiting for the activation signal that Vrenn Myrvalis sent on the sixteenth of Scorchend.
The signal traveled through six relay points — temple mirrors used for divine communication, repurposed by the Ministry for intelligence transmission through encrypted frequency modulation that only Ministry-trained priests could decode. The signal contained a single word: ASHFALL. The word was an activation code known to twelve agents embedded across the Accord's six member territories. When the agents received the word, their cover identities — the traders, farmers, laborers, and minor religious officials they'd been pretending to be — ended. Their operational identities — saboteurs, intelligence collectors, and provocateurs — began.
