For the first time in a long time, only five eternals have sent emissaries in response to the archmage plenipotentiary messages (the last time was probably Winter 381YE). Each archmage is empowered to send a single message to an eternal of their realm each season, with certain expectation of some kind of response, but Bella Vicente d'Apulian has resigned as Archmage of Night without sending one. Rumour surrounds the resignation, with scandalous stories suggesting one of the most prominent magical representatives of the Empire has been involved in possible treason. Other stories say that she have been the victim of a smear campaign by magicians jealous of the power of Night magic; a political assassination orchestrated in the City of Locks; or a cunning stratagem by the former archmage themselves to entrap enemies of the Empire. Regardless of the truth, without a plenipotentiary message there will be no parley with an eternal of the Night realm during the Summer solstice.
