The Leader Incarnate has issued a decree:

– The threat of the Serradic Empire has hung over the city of Acryn for too long. It is time to cut the head from the beast which threatens us.

However, the Serradic Empire's power is strong, especially their skill when it comes to Wayfinding. To this effect I call upon the greatest Wayfinder's the city has to offer in order to make a voyage into the Heart of the Empire and cripple it from within: Vanessa, Eric Luckner, and Mark Carter and any who would support them are called to fight for the future of the city. –

Following the decree, a number of council members who have been working with Vanessa on operation “Descent” have pushed to get their own plan put into action before the Leader has an opportunity to enact what they believe to be a highly suspicious plan of his (or her) own. Not least because those in the know recognise another shared trait between those the Leader wishes to send on an apparent suicide mission.