I like that
lmp!
Especially as it loops back to from where this Mead Hall began - coming to the ruins of a place that had been burnt. Maybe our characters are still all quite newbies around these corners of the land?
I remember we then had some ideas as to our characters trying to "find out" what had happened there - and there were different suggestions to form a plot from there which were in turn forgotten as other, more pressing things started to happen.
But something along these lines would give us interesting prospects of also coming back to that original mystery - and how local people or our three "lords" were involved with it.
I like it very much!