At the beginning of the year, the faction began to expand their influence towards the east and the lands of Nihon as they journeyed east to answer aa call for help from the people of Siam. With the trakalite threat lying in ruins, the republican threat soon crumbled. The Crimson Dawn was defeated and an alliance with the Faction's enemy was struck. However, the peace did not last as new threats arose in the form of an Unliving Unicorn claiming to be Cadrus Cornus' kin, in the form of a group of 'Tainted' werewolves bent on the destruction of the Faction, and attacks from Mephias and his Tael elementals.