Krovla

The Second Krovlan uprising reshaped Navarre’s military command structure. Before it, the General of the Armies could come from several backgrounds, including healer, infantry officer, or scribe; afterward, the commander of the riders commanded all of Navarre’s forces.

Violet believes Krovla failed a Deverelli-brokered bargain by promising dragons and being unable to deliver them. In that theory, the failure led to the unnamed isle’s troop withdrawal, the Midnight Massacre, and Krovla remaining part of Poromiel.

After Violet returns from Deverelli, Battle Brief reports that the venin are moving in Krovla again during the expedition’s eight-day absence.

After the three-week expedition, Krovla has declined sharply, with half the province painted red on the Battle Brief map. The scale of the advance makes defense of the western line a priority for protecting neighboring Tyrrendor and Elsum.

Krovla shares a border with Tyrrendor, and the Athebyne outpost lies on that Krovla-Tyrrendor border.

Samara sits where Krovla and Braevick provinces intersect, making Krovla part of the border geography around the Southern Wing outpost.

Draithus and Cordyn are both in Krovla. Cordyn lies on the province’s southern coast, and routes to Tecarus’s palace cross Krovlan territory.

Krovla has an oceanic eastern border by the Bay of Malek, with northern plains also marked in strategic mapping of the province.

The Stonewater River is important to the province’s wartime geography because enemy movement along it points toward Navarre.

As the province deteriorates, the Battle Brief map leaves only Krovla’s southern tip and western portion outside the marked enemy advance.

Under the Treaty of Arif, Krovla is Navarre’s treaty partner for mutually shared airspace. The shared corridor is a narrow strip over the Esben Mountains between Sumerton and Draithus, and it applies to both dragons and gryphons.

The enemy’s advance throughout Krovla prevents Navarre from stationing a full riot at Suniva, so the province’s front line directly limits where dragon-and-rider forces can be assigned.

Krovla still contains undrained territory that the venin might bypass if they learn Aretia can be approached without functioning wards. Violet treats that possibility as a strategic disaster because it would redirect enemy attention toward Aretia’s hatching ground.

Viscount Tecarus is Viscount of Krovla, and Fen Riorson sought him as his first ally in the Tyrrish rebellion.

As Krovla’s situation worsens, people flee the province in every direction. Dain argues that holding Krovla’s western line is also necessary to keep dark wielders off Tyrrendor and Elsum.