Our Court grows with four new Retainer portraits! Thanks to your extraordinary support, we have  crowned our first Achievement and can offer you a new goal to meet. Not just four more Retainer portaits for the Fractured Soothsayer, the Hexed Baronet, the Princess of Lyres and the Shrouded Watcher, but a new finish for the boxed set: we've always wanted to splurge on gilded details to embellish the cover, and this is the perfect chance to make them a reality. All in honor of our Queen!

As promised earlier, however, we'd like to take this chance to explore one of the new Backdrops that populate the alternate map of Halloway. This is not the final text you will read on your map sheet, but here's the little preview we shared with Al Lukehart so they could imagine the new map:

Skywalk Burgh is the closest location to the Lonely City, and an extension of its pastures. An ancient burgh is split in half by the two ends of a chasm, with a great bridge crossing the abyss: this is the highway leading into the capital of Halloway.
In the middle of the bridge is a castle, a lodging for the nobles waiting for an audience with the Queen. The two sides of the burgh, divided by the chasm, have a fierce rivalry: the farmers and artisans are in constant competition. The staples of local crafters are red and white wine respectively, and the two cliff faces have been terraced and cultivated with vineyards. One red, one white. The rivalry culminates in a yearly day of contests, The Red-White Tournament— or White-Red, depending on which side of the town you ask— the two sides competing for the honor of getting to stock the pantries of Skywalk Castle.

Keep an ear out for the Queen's heralds and get ready to explore the rest of Halloway. And help us spread her proclamations in every corner of the land, so that we can provide a stately portrait to even more Retainers!