Well the Darka vs CE and Co. war was going on but then CE got the border regions and gave them away to Talerium...pointlessly, IMO in a war of aggression. (Is aware it does mean its harder for Darka to ever attack CE but that wasn't ever really happening.)
IIRC there was some action after the region giving away at BoM with Darka trying to save BoM I believe but I don't recall exactly what was going on then. After that the north has basically gone silent.
