Awake, because they have personally experienced round after round of conscription and levies, the pillaging by the Herd Barbarians, the roaming bandits, the blocked roads by the army, the corpses of travelers abandoned on country lanes—they are acutely aware that everything around them has undergone a tremendous change.
However, for these squires scattered in the frontier regions, far from the political center, the outside world remains vague.
Roads blocked, communication cut off, and occasionally a resilient guest visits, bringing nothing but bad news: this one has started fighting with that one, then that one started fighting with this one again, Kingsfort's office sent troops to fight the Herders, Kingsfort's office then took over Maplestone City...
The major events that have occurred in the Newly Reclaimed Lands Province over the past two years, when spread to most of the newly reclaimed people, usually only leave behind fragmented phrases and sensational rumors.
