The action of Fortunes of War unfolds in three major locales. It starts at Aeres, in the palace, where Erik and Oliver are still using Erik's study as a makeshift bedchamber while stonemasons finish up post-battle repairs on the royal apartments. From the family dining room, and the stable yard, to the hay shed where Leif's pack chooses to bed down each night, the capital of Aeres is a now-familiar setting.
In the South, Amelia leads her forces at Inglewood Manor, which was once Connor's inherited seat. It is again, technically, now that his usurper brother has fallen to the Sels, but he doesn't much behave like the lord of the manor anymore. The occupying Sels didn't treat the place kindly, and it's a bit tattered and rundown; it has a distinct haunted Victorian mansion feel about it, and its extensive grounds and gardens have been given over to a war camp, the drakes, and the ever-encroaching wildness of the forest.
Speaking of which...
The Inglewood itself is not only another major location - the road South travels straight down through it - but it also serves as a sort of character all its own. It's the sort of ancient forest hiding innumerable secrets - including Amelia's drakes, hibernating deep within its hidden caves.
Next book, as the march to war continues, we'll have a whole host of new locales. I must admit that I'll miss our familiar environs.
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