For house Azores, the end of the events had proven rather humbling and humiliating. Of course, given the terms of the sentence, revenge was very much fresh on the minds of the house (minus Rembertha, but her loss means the house doesn't need as much food anyway).
Still, they had five years to prepare for the storm. And under the cover of it they would lay out the plans for vengeance as it shouded and protected them while it took it's toll.
Seralt and Ranult enroll in the military academy. The church is told to wait in regards to it's crusader given that it would be for their benefit if Seralt had a degree of military acumen. Furthermore, it opens the doors for house Morgarten and house Salyar to enlist generals and to enroll themselves from the academy at a price of one mark per person. Houses Hartwing and Al-Hazar are barred from hiring or enrolling given recent events, and as promised a sect of the church is allowed to enroll and enlist their personnel as they please.
In regards to their bargains with some of the sects of the church, house Azores donates five marks to a specific sect which shall remain undisclosed at this point.
Issradi raises two fleets, one from Tansera's fiefs and one from Fia's, and begins exploring and mapping the demon's eye system, claiming any world discovered for house Azores alone. Emperor be damned if he wants any of it.
Fia, Sorak, Aerys, Tansera and Rynal continue managing fiefs as normal. Though all would return to Agri-prime after the compound had been reduced to rubble, some would say as a sign of them snubbing the imperial capital and the emperor's authority.