In Jelgava, close to the Bratanu Mountains on the border with Algarve, Leino and Xavega are killed by an Algarvian magical trap.

Ealstan in Unkerlanter army is having to reduce his own hometown, Gromheort, in which Algarvians were holed up.

Algarvians come out with other desperate magics, some demonic, others new and unreliable, but appear to have given up killing Kaunians for the most part.

Krasta has a baby boy, which she at first names Valnu (later Gainibu), but which turns out to be Lurcanio's; Merkela cuts all her hair off in punishment.

Ealstan is wounded, discharged from army, and stays in Gromheort with his family.