Our valiant heroes escaped from the patrols around the cave they were hiding in and fled east back towards the fringes of civilisation.
Pursued by a group of dragon bloods they eventually managed to lose them with only the most minor of confrontations.
They found their way back to the manse that they had recently discovered and unlocked the treasures hidden within.
A brief discussion turned to future plans, and deciding that the best way to operate would be from a place of safety naturally thoughts turned to where one might create a power base.
The city state of Tredemin was chosen, on the northeastern borders of the hundred kingdoms. And Queen Latifah was enchanted by the newly arrived Lord and his retinue. Inisiting he had a small force a few days march hence, and he would be happy to take care of the bandit problem the country was suffering from, he was welcomed with open arms.
Realising that the best way to resolve this web of lies was to convince the bandit army to march under their banner the solars marched East through the forest in search of their camp. On their way they were surprised by a group of lunars. Happily for Valion one of them was his sister. However, the reunion turned sour when the wife of Valion's incarnation from the first age took umbrage at the fact Kilik was wearing his (you can't expect a lunar to live for millenia and not experiment) armour. This umbrage took the form of some death threats.
Despite Fox's attempts to stop him doing something stupid, Kilik did something stupid and attacked the first age lunar before the first age lunar attacked him, severely stubbing his toe in the process. Despite having the element of surprise and wicked-cool combo Kilik was always going to struggle against a being that has lived for countless generations, but he did succeed in severely pissing it off. The beast switched into its gorilla-form (heh- JD married a gorilla) and bit out Kilik's throat, but not before swearing blood vengeance against Kilik in all of his future incarnations.
Valion and Lord Fi went off with the lunars to try to limit the damage caused, leaving Azir and Fox to dejectedly trudge back to the city.
Whereupon they bumped into Kairos Orcos and Ferric Iron, who had both exalted at the same moment as them and had been drawn, presumably by destiny, to Tredemin. With their ranks replenshed, and still needing to produce an army out of nothing they journeyed to the bandit camp, killed some bandits and met Dalf, a God Blood with an evil laugh and a penchant for the kill.
After being promised lots of killing, Dalf sent the solars to meet his father, the God of Battles of this part of the world, since he would need his father's permission to fight. The solars got it, and Dalf marched his army to Tredemin and set up camp.
The solars then looked outwards, and noticed that they had two relatively powerful neighbours. A kingdom ruled by DBs to the West, and Thaumaturges to the South. Their thoughts now turn to spreading the good word (Fox), creating a centre of learning (Azir), apparently random acts of mind-rape (Kairos) and stopping Kairos from too many apparently random acts of mind-rape (Ferric).