It took a year for everything to settle. The majority of that was allocating forces to contain the Fiends. Immortals from various powers now led soldiers from all the powers that could afford them.
There was no longer any single power assigned as they could not be trusted. It had been proven that any weakness could be exploited. A fact that the former Alliance members bitterly recalled being brought up by Lind Frey himself.
It was how they had fought the war. The best warriors went to the Line and the other powers supported them but when they came up to the Celestial Fields, they no longer wanted the burden.
They tasted freedom and ran with it. They now saw the price.
The Fiends had bided their time and found a way to expand their sphere and then were betrayed by their own allies to reveal a plan that could have been far more devastating. If not for human greed, things could have been worse and they all knew it.
