[CEO's Cheat Sheet]
Human Resources (HR): The division of a business charged with finding, screening, recruiting, and training job applicants. In Winterhaven, this involves hot soup and binding magical contracts.
Acquisition: When one entity purchases most or all of another entity's assets to gain absolute control over it.
Severance Package: Compensation provided to an executive upon their forced departure. Here, it is the simple privilege of keeping their heads attached to their necks.
The frozen plains of Winterhaven witnessed the most bizarre aftermath of a battle in the history of the continent.
There were no victorious war cries, no looting of corpses, and no executions of prisoners. Instead, there was a remarkably orderly, albeit freezing, line of seven thousand former royal soldiers.
