Artemisia is made a principality, beholden to Atenveldt. Thorfinn Kodoson is the first prince, Sarah Thomasyn his princess.

Vlad's Pleasure Palace has it's first year at the Pennsic War.

In the Principality of Drachenwald, the Knackebrod Wars begin, a war over which side of the knackebrod one should butter - the flat side or the side with holes - symbolized by the knackebrod that both Vlad and Prince Thorfinn are holding.