User blog comment:General Esdeath/Episode 15 and 16 are NOT the Season finale/@comment-17711744-20131027160904

Good to know that they're not going to try to cram a whole bunch of content into the last few episodes. I think it was at the NYCC panel that they said they were really excited to start going into different characters' backstories, but they wanted to get this "exposition"-type stuff done first. I assume the first half of the season (volume one), then, it that exposition, and we'll start getting into some much-desired back story in volume 2.