While Elian Sweetwater has been busy performing their appraisal (as detailed in the Here we stay wind of fortune), he is far from the only person exploring Mareave in the last season. Magicians from the Golden Pyramid conclave order are enthusiastically seeking out opportunities to build the Prosperity of the arid land, both for the Imperial Orcs and (hopefully) for themselves. Orcs from the Tamazi sept heed the words of their national assembly, looking for ways they can use their expertise in stonecraft or magic to help secure the newest Imperial territory. At the same time, there are discussions in the Brass Coast and the Marches about how to help make the dry plains bloom, and to the north a chance meeting between the League, and Urizen gives rise to an Ambitious plan to deal with the challenges represented by Mareave's comparative disconnection from the rest of the Empire.