• The spectral boar is not the villain. It is the wounded guardian of the covenant.
  • The Fog Peaks contain oath-stones that record spoken treaties as living weather.
  • Northern Tandak's marshal is being manipulated by a relic called the Boundary Thorn.
  • The final enemy is a legalistic fey warlord, Varkesh of the Broken Tusk, who intends to make the three lands break the pact by choice.