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Featuring Queen Cadhara: Winter, Year 2006 of the Dragon Era The Austerian Guard Training Grounds, Austerian Territory Cadhara’s day had gone from bad to worse. After the events of the night before, the Queen had been unable to sleep both due to duty and anxiety. Every shadow seemed to have an all too familiar face, the scuffle of hooves down the wooden halls taking on the sound of her cruel laughter. The more Cadhara learned, the more dire things seemed to become. As the night’s hours began to give way to the dawn, the count of those who were missing became all the more alarming. King Cailan, the young guard Riesling, and - by extension - one of her most skilled guards, Michael, who hadn’t been seen since he went off to search for his apprentice. Countless others reported incidents similar to Cadhara’s, an inexplicable figure of shadow and nightmare striking fear into those who encountered it. Selfishly, Cadhara found a small bit of relief in their pain; while the unknown