The war council convened in the governor's administrative hall with the particular atmosphere of a body that had been summoned because the situation required it rather than because the commander had arrived at a plan he wanted to present.
The maps on the table had been updated within the last hour with the Verakh network's intelligence markings, the combined picture showing the campaign's current disposition with the clarity that Sakh'arran's system produced and that commanders who had served in orcish warbands before the Horde had found, in the early months of their service, disorienting in its completeness.
