The rescue builds slowly. Eivor calls in the alliances she has spent the game constructing, and each one that answers is a measure of what the settlement has become. Ravensthorpe started as a necessity. It has become a name that means something.

The ancestral weight in this session is about Sigurd as much as lineage. He is Eivor's brother and her king and now her responsibility. What she carries forward is not just blood. It is the obligation to go back for the people who cannot get out alone.