Spies are sent to find the whereabouts of Valmer. When they are found they are told they are granted asylum in Muscovy. We didn't want to go to war, we just wanted the Urals.
The group would have a vision when they slept of there horses dead, there food gone, and there weapons and armor also gone. When they woke up they found this to be true with a pick axe in the gut of the watchman. In the sand/dirt there would be a carving of a sycth through a crescent moon along with the heads of all the dead horses but it seemed as four horses were taken to travel...