The top spots splots were always in high competition by the youngest [Ladies]

This is five years too late, but I have to say it: horses don’t lap at water. Unless Ci is some sort of magical horse-hybrid, she will simply suck it. She’d stick her snout into the water/drink and suck on it, just like a person would.

a human lizard hibrid… did she pop out from an egg?

finishing the chap, ah nice, no bullshit here, would have made my life easier,
anyways, seems like a waste of a chapter putting the verily new El to the story, and the one month the previous head got herself, i suppose we gonna see much of her on all the parallels in the following chaptes?
tfc

This is patently incorrect. The totems do claim land for him. That was how he expanded his empire in the first place. That is also why, when totems are destroyed, his mental image of his empire begins to have holes in it, because that land is now no longer part of his empire.

Prior to the events in Riverfarm, Belavierr likely hasn’t done much in Izril that would be antagonistic or evil. She would be have been a traveler, or merchant, or similar things that would be considered as a “guest” on the land. She didn’t come intending to invade, nor did she come as a champion of some foreign power.

This type of ritual didn’t work on the Goblin King because he was coming in as an invader. Neither he nor they considered him a guest, so banishment could not apply.

For all Belavierr is extremely powerful, that power is heavily bound by old magic. In comparison to the Hunters and Knights that went after her, who were relatively few in number, she’s up against dozens of Ladies – many of which are probably higher level than most or all of those Hunters. And they are fighting using the same type of magic that binds her powers, rather than the more “mundane” methods used by the Hunters. Even then, they were slowly losing until hundreds of other Ladies showed up, and they weren’t trying to kill her, just send her away.