Status Updates From The Rivaled Crown

So today, I have apparently unlocked a new reading and writing pet peeve. The amount of exposition that just dropped at this point in the story is almost enough to make me DNF. There are so many ways that this could have been incorporated into the story in earlier moments or even in an expanded narration of books.

Holy freaking exposition, Batman. This is book three. Why are we throwing in a Deus Ex Machina now?