Rebuilding after the war was not an easy feat.  Towns and cities had been destroyed, landscapes changed by bombs and powerful mages alike.  There were decisions to make - do we rebuild here or build something new and leave the ruins to nature?

Choices varied between the nations that had borne the brunt of the war.  Queen Iola’s choice to leave Harmony as rubble was polarizing - some saw it as weakness, some saw it as spitting on her mother’s legacy…  Others saw it as a painful choice to focus on a future rather than a damaged past.  Others, of course, saw it simply as an understandable grief - would her loss and sorrow still be real and understood if she walked the same streets, if her castle looked the same?  Still others simply assumed that she no longer felt safe beyond Haven’s magical barrier - and if so, she was hardly alone in that feeling.  Haven’s population swelled during the war and kept growing after, as many dextroluma who had survived human bombs felt uncomfortable continuing to reside somewhere without a protection of this nature - and since no one knew how to replicate Haven’s barrier, their choices were rather limited.

As Haven was built into a proper capitol, rumors abounded about matters relating to the young Queen.  The nations had rallied behind her to protect their planet, but now it remained to see what sort of peacetime queen she would make.