The City-State Allied Forces needed time to mobilize, and a war of extermination was best launched only after thorough preparations.
While the Odyssey City-State Council deployed its troops, the Wrynn Family actively prepared for war, massing heavy forces in Blue Bay City and along the northwestern border of the Crimson Kingdom.
Geographically, the Crimson Kingdom, made up of the Fire-Prayer Stone Forest, the Scorching Red Desert, and the Crimson Plateau, lay at the southernmost end of the Gamma Continent.
The Gnoll Kingdom lay northwest of the Crimson Plateau, with a vast swamp separating its western border from the territory occupied by the Odyssey City-State.
In the northeastern part of the Odyssey City-State's occupied territory, Blue Bay City spanned the vast swamp and bordered the Gnoll Kingdom.
The occupied territory of the Odyssey City-State backed onto the Dead Sea, with the Porcupine Kingdom to the northwest.
Under the joint operations agreement between Medivh and the Odyssey City-State Council, the Odyssey allied forces would march north to attack the Porcupine Kingdom, part of whose territory they had already occupied.
At the same time, the Wrynn Family would attack the Gnoll Kingdom on two fronts, advancing from the Crimson Plateau and Blue Bay City.
Besides the Porcupine Kingdom, the Gnoll Kingdom, and the Iguana Kingdom, which the Wrynn Family had destroyed, three Indigenous Kingdoms remained on the Gamma Continent.
One was the Argali Kingdom, located beyond a mountain pass northeast of the Crimson Plateau.
North of the Argali Kingdom lay the Kobold Kingdom.
And northwest of the Kobold Kingdom, occupying the continent's northernmost reaches, lay the Harpy Kingdom.
While jointly attacking the Porcupine Kingdom and the Gnoll Kingdom, the Wrynn Family and the Odyssey City-State Allied Forces had to keep an eye on the movements of these three Indigenous Kingdoms and prepare for