The opening of the western Regional Headquarters had marked an important achievement for the Adventurer Guild, but its success had also introduced responsibilities that could no longer be handled through the informal arrangements used during the organization's earliest days.
With additional regional negotiations underway and plans for subordinate branches beginning to take shape, Kingsford Headquarters needed a reliable system for supervising operations across considerable distances.
Boren had spent the previous week developing precisely such a system.
That morning, the senior administrator stood before a large map of Westmark inside the administrative conference room.
Beside him, Lyana arranged several documents while Irene Valcrest, Garran Holt, Tobias Merrow, and Marcelline Dacre examined the proposed procedures.
