Asha has come home to the Iron Islands from conquering on the mainland to get involved in all the choosing-a-new-king business. There's some family reunion stuff to deal with, like telling her mother about the fate of her probably- (and therefore almost certainly not) dead brother. There's a lovesick highschool sweetheart who is probably going to turn into a murderous incel at some point. For now, since Asha knows the path to true equality of the sexes and arms herself, she has the upper hand over him.
There's some doubt over whether Balon really did just accidentally fall off a bridge. There is an uncle who likes reading history (he prefers his history dead, because it is written in ink, instead of alive, where it is written in blood; very good). And there is the business of the kingsmoot, which is a turn-up for the books to Asha, but she's going to make the most of it by going there and trying to become queen.
