While the heroes further explore their new home, they must manage and rule their nascent kingdom, establish towns and roads and resources, and keep their realm's growing population happy. These tasks are made more difficult by regular attacks by marauding monsters, encroaching tribes of barbaric trolls, and a mysterious but legendary monster roused from ancient slumber by this expansion into its wilderness territory. And perhaps worse of all, the bandit lords of the River Kingdoms themselves have taken notice of this expansion, and when they turn their retribution north, the rivers will run red with blood.