What was, perhaps, worse, was when he returned home, and found that his quarters were in a rather... bloody disarray, Sak'bas looking pleased; there was no sign of a corpse, but he could spot bloodstains on her claws. "Someone tried to kill me while you were responding to the emergency. They didn't not succeed," she replied.<br/><br/>It didn't take long for those reports of armies on his western front to materialize into something real - like with the wyverns, these were fast-moving forces; giants, cavalry, or just light infantry, that would harass anywhere and everywhere they could reach, never remaining long enough for a standup fight, always striking, causing as much damage as they could, and retreating at the first sign of resistance, before popping up somewhere else, to strike again. If his armies were in the area, they were given a wide berth, meaning that he'd need to spread his forces thin, to protect all of his property.