“Hakon, why have you done this?” Queen Helka asked her son. “Because Lik-Rifa changes everything,” he said desperately. “Your plans for power, to defeat Jarl Störr and Jarl Orlyg, and to rule Vigrið. Lik-Rifa makes them all dust. There is a new power loose in the world, and there can be no standing against it. Better to join it than be destroyed by it.”
