There never was going to be time for negotiations or diplomacy between the Corvids and the Rattus Rodentius; the hatred went further back than memory itself and there were no stories of a time when the two kinds got along, or even tolerated each other.

Their history, in its entirety was one of war and deceit, battle and bloodshed; nothing more, nothing less…

The Ravenking Harfengel was not going to allow his entire species to become extinct due to losing this battle and not being able to hold up in the Treehold Keep.

It was all or nothing. Kill or be killed. Win this battle or lose to extinction. Present moment versus eternity…