The Faendryl-Ashrim War

Held on Koaratos 14, 5118 (7/14/18) by Xorus Kul'shin.

From Eiliriel's point of view:

Xorus graciously mentions, "I will be making use of the historical phrase 'lesser races', but no aspersions are intended toward our audience."

Xorus says, "For those who do not know, I am an occult archaeologist from the Hazalred Thaumaturgical Institute, which is a matter of antiquities and esoteric knowledge."

Xorus says, "I will be speaking tonight instead on the historical context of the Faendryl-Ashrim War. The war propaganda of our cousins, which absolves them of their own guilt, is insufficiently countered."

Xorus says, "It is the moment that most defines the state of affairs between the Elves in the modern age and most famously resulted in the utter annihilation of House Ashrim."

Xorus says, "With authorities as great as Meachreasim Illistim having the gall to assert there were 'no known survivors' it becomes necessary to issue corrections."

Xorus says, "The history of this conflict is set within a much deeper tradition of great power politics which descends from the birth of the Elven Empire itself."

Xorus says, "In the dawn that ended the Age of Darkness, the first city-states were founded, with high born dynastic rulers of prominent families."

You see Ambassador Tredohal Hashier Faendryl.

He appears to be a Dark Elf.

He is average height. He appears to be in the meridian of life. He has deep-set pale green eyes and dark skin. He has long, fine silver hair that curls slightly at the ends. He has an angular face, a classical nose and angular pointed ears.

He is in good shape.

He is wearing a cinereal silk sash striped with a wide heliotrope band, a rich ebon velveteen tunic with eahnor embroidery, a pale ivory linen underrobe with heavily ruched sleeves, a russet snakeskin belt, and some silver-striated bourde open-toed slippers inset with scarlet despanals.

Tredohal walks over to the bench and settles down.

Xorus greets, "Ambassdor. It is an honor."

Eiliriel says, "We are honored by your presence."

Speaking in Faendryl, Tredohal says, "I heard there was some important history being spoken this nght."

Speaking in Faendryl, Lylia murmurs, "Indeed."

Xorus says, "I am providing an historical context perspective on the Sea Elf War."

Brakian quietly says, "Hrrmph."

Speaking to Brakian, Eiliriel says, "Welcome to the Enclave as well."

Xorus says, "Granted, others may regard the matter quite differently, but to each their own."

Speaking to Xorus, Ysharra says, "As I said. Hard to find the most relevant opposing perspective now."

Speaking in Faendryl, Taelarn says, "My apologies for my late arrival."

Xorus says, "As I was saying. Fifty millennia ago the city-states were founded over several thousand years."

Xorus says, "These were nascent nations with associated ideologies. The Illistim formed around chronicle keepers seeking preservation of ancient lore through the written word."

Xorus says, "The Vaalor chose to uphold martial order as their ideal. The Ashrim wished to master the seas. The Faendryl would be masters of the world."

Xorus says, "The very early history of the Faendryl nation was one of bloody power struggles, the chaos only ending in the ascension of the fourteenth Patriarch."

Xorus says, "The first dozen or so successors of Korthyr Faendryl, in fact, were all within the reign of the first Argent Mirror."

Xorus says, "It was Yshryth Silvius Faendryl who established the world order of the Second Age. Civilization ordered from highest to lowest in a grand hierarchy of supremacy."

Xorus says, "The Great Drakes had brooded separately over their own dominions. In their absence the Arkati had forged spheres of influence out of thematics."

Xorus says, "The Elves would be exemplars of such ideals. Their patrons regarded as undemanding liege lords, the lesser races their own vassals."

Xorus says, "The monarch was to be one with the highest virtues. Their greatness mirrored in the achievements of their subjects, their vices a collective guilt borne by all."

Xorus says, "In this way the monarchs were to be the pinnacles of existence, mirrors of those high above who were thought to be empowered through our own qualities."

Xorus says, "And so it was that the people took the name of the royalty of their house, their fates inextricably bound with one another in extended family."

Xorus says, "There was thus a balance of powers by allowing the other houses dominion over their spheres of influence just as the Arkati themselves."

Xorus says, "The Vaalor had the greatest land army. The Ashrim the greatest navy. These were balances of lopsided supremacy."

Xorus says, "The lesser races were, of course, the ones who bore the brunt of such enlightenment."

Lylia smirks as a haughty expression flits across her face.

Xorus says, "In the vision of Yshryth the lesser races were only saved from their savagery by higher civilizations, those who had transcended the barbarism of kinslaying, the worst kind being the unforgivable act of murdering royalty."

Xorus says, "The descent of this taboo is surely from the dragons, regarded as dark and bestial by Elves, who slaughtered their own and were lost to the demonic."

Xorus says, "The word 'Drake' is etymologically rooted with 'Draekeche', the ancient Elven word for 'darkness' and thus the Age of Darkness."

Xorus says, "I have a bauble somewhere that quotes Linsandrych Illistim using the term."

Xorus wryly says, "Yshryth writ this law in blood and purged it of all hypocrisy through the irony of executing his own mother."

Xorus says, "Much as the Arkati were barred from openly warring among each other by Koar, the first among 'not-truly-equal' equals and haunted by the fall of dragonkind, so it would be with the Elves under the Faendryl."

Xorus says, "This was fertile ground for ironic superstitions. The inevitable emergence of hypocrisies shrouded in ancient taboos and idealism."

Xorus says, "Neither kinslaying. Nor summoning dark horrors of the abyss. Nor walking the blackened wastelands of the Ur-Daemon."

Xorus says, "With a more cynical view of Elven royal politics, friction was wetted through the absence of contrary interests, and ensured by the avoidance of embarrassment."

Xorus says, "The Vaalor would sink their rafts under the weight of their plate armor, one would jest, but would have the Ashrim arrested if they landed an army."

Xorus says, "In the absence of true threats for thousands of years, the Second Age became one of decadence and hidden decay masked as progress."

Xorus says, "There was once a trade war between the Illlistim and Loenthran monarchs, Cafainiel and Siskania respectively, over the reimbursement of petty living expenses by royal family members."

Xorus says, "This was a scandal that threatened to embroil the whole empire, but was quietly settled with a small donation to a bardic association."

Xorus says, "This frivolousness was characteristic of the late Elven Empire, with its excesses and profligacy of irrelevant concerns."

Xorus says, "It was a symptom of a more serious fragility that was left invisible from lack of great threats."

Xorus says, "The incident led to increasing power of councils of high born families, which was ultimately a fragmentation toward oligarchy from within the nations."

Xorus remarks, "Cafainiel was part of an illegitimate bloodline originating in incest. Her mother ascended the throne through the fiat of such royal advisors, following the mysterious death of her predecessor."

Xorus says, "The Council of Thrones of House Illistim to this day refuses to allow any investigation whatsoever into what happened."

Xorus says, "The Argent Mirror Cafainiel's son Elmelan was killed along with most of his family after having married into the Vaalor. His only surviving daughter was a young child, the Child Argent Lahrair, who was only a few decades old."

(Lylia's eyes widen briefly.)

Xorus says, "... and yes, I will eventually get to the Sea Elf War, if you were wondering."

Xorus smirks.

Shiril begins chuckling at Xorus!

Xorus says, "Her mandatory Vaaloran military service was replaced with the formation of the ill-fated Sabrar legion, which was famously destroyed at ShadowGuard by the arch-lich Dharthiir."

Ysharra says, "Not really."

Jeril snickers at Xorus.

Jeril asks, "Sometime this evening or next week?"

Xorus says, "The court was ruled with regency and the records of the period have been destroyed. In time such councils would become formal and came to dominate the monarchy."

Shiril gives a sidelong glance at Jeril.

Lylia turns her head toward Jeril to favor him with a silent, withering gaze.

Xorus says, "While Lahrair's daughter Lilorandrych was one of the greatest monarchs in their history, her own daughter and grandchildren were weak and not well regarded."

Xorus says, "It was in this period that Despana was building her dark host. The fortress of Maelshyve was constructed three thousand years before the Undead War."

Xorus says, "The arch-lich Dharthiir was recruiting the barbaric races for a few centuries before the war began. It was not taken seriously by the Elves."

Xorus says, "When the war began the great houses each wished for the glory of single-handedly defeating the insurrection through their own ideals."

Xorus says, "The Vaaloran shield was the first to shatter. Despana was a plague lord. Her hordes inflicted rotting diseases."

Xorus says, "This was ideal for negating the value of martial tactics involving close combat."

Xorus says, "The Illistim failed to contain Despana themselves, and Library Aies itself was badly damaged. This brings us to a critical point which is brushed aside on the question of the Exile."

Xorus says, "There was a revolutionary furor among the Elven peoples. The shock at the failure of their leaders to live up to their own supposed perfection, combined with the humiliation of requiring aid from the lesser races."

Xorus says, "The last dynastic Argent Mirror, Lanenreat, was forced to abdicate under the abandonment of her advisors and the people themselves."

Xorus mentions, "Lanenreat is often depicted as young and frivolous by the Illistim. In truth she was over five thousand years old and heirless."

Xorus wryly says, "Keep such things in mind when visiting museums with wealthy patrons, generous donors, and conspicuously flattered families."

Swige just arrived.

Xorus says, "When the Faendryl unleashed demonic hordes on the undead and other such horrible atrocities, the wounded pride of these populations had no where else to go but up."

Swige quietly says, "Apologies."

Xorus says, "Scapegoating the Faendryl was the only way to hold on to their thrones. It was the perfect excuse to deny their own failures to those who had lost faith."

Xorus says, "The necessity of the methods employed were argued by the Faendryl, which was in turn the one thing the masses least wished to hear."

Xorus says, "There is an intimate relation between the demonic and undead. It was critical for disrupting her chain of command."

Xorus says, "Her lieutenants were liches. Highly resistant to destruction. Their phylacteries must be banished."

Xorus says, "Such arguments fell on deaf ears. In some ways they were all the more damning."

Xorus says, "There was no denying it was an especially dangerous action in the accursed lands of the Ur-Daemon, for it was thought to have been formed in the final battle with their collapsing portal. The fabric of reality was permanently torn at Maelshyve, extraplanar horrors issue from it to this day."

Xorus says, "The Faendryl were condemned to live in the forbidden wasteland as punishment for their 'foul acts', forever bearing the burden of guarding this tear in the Veil."

Xorus says, "And so it is that the Faendryl have suppressed what comes from it. Fiends have only been allowed to wander north as retribution for the human aggression."

Xorus says, "They scorched the earth behind them. Great magical monstrosities, extraplanar beings, and necromancy were bound within the old city."

Xorus says, "They were to be eternal monuments of our greatness. Inspiring awe in those few powerful enough to bear witness."

Xorus says, "In the end the dynastic heritage fell regardless, our cousins now selecting monarchs in other ways."

Xorus says, "Veneration was the virtue that fell to the vice of vanity. Without its anchor, all was adrift."

Xorus says, "Without the royal bloodlines with their stability through intermarriages, and the Faendryl as the great balancer, power politics was freed to feed upon itself. Blindly reacting to demotic impulses and shifting ideological convictions."

Xorus says, "The mad king of the Ardenai from the Undead War is an amusing cautionary tale often ignored by the Elves."

Xorus says, "When confronted with mass starvation followed by indignation at being bested by halflings, his sorcerers slaughtered all of their ponies with a cursed illness, which then backfired by wiping out their own herds."

Xorus wryly says, "With such inspiration from Despana, it is a wonder they were not banished. This speaks volumes on the matter of the rather recent exile of the Faendryl."

Xorus says, "The Elven nations fragmented into their own inward focuses. The outer provinces fell to chaos. Kingdoms rising and falling. Almost all forgotten."

Xorus says, "Many thousands of years passed. In time the Undead War passed from living memory, and the trauma dissolved in a more dissolute civilization."

Ysharra says, "Slaughter of animals is apparently a less fell act than saving the entire continent."

Ysharra folds her hands behind her back.

Cruxophim nods absently at Ysharra.

Xorus says, "There was a thaw in relations between these houses, and our cousins had committed their own drastic acts with the kiramon."

Speaking to Cruxophim, Xorus says, "Which they have charitably absolved themselves of with some charity."

Xorus says, "In the time period that marriage was arranged between Chesylcha Sukari and the Ashrim prince, relations between the Faendryl and Illistim had warmed considerably."

Xorus says, "The Argent Mirror Caladsal Nellereune, descendant of Alerreth, the inventor of airships, considered Chesylcha a royal cousin."

Xorus says, "The ramifications of this arrangement were unnerving to the other houses, however loath they would be to admit it now."

Xorus says, "The Illistim were fashioning a whole new sphere of dominion, air power, which threatened to replace the sea for both commerce and military."

Xorus says, "For the Ashrim to marry with the Faendryl amounted to the formation of a Faendryl-Illistim-Ashrim axis, which would ultimately lead to the return of Faendryl supremacy."

Xorus says, "It would have negated the relevance of the Vaalor military, with the summoning capacities of all three obviating the need for soldiers, as well as being a mortal threat to Nalfein and Loenthran merchanting."

Xorus says, "This is manifest from simply considering the situation and the context."

Xorus says, "This was undoubtedly a matter of controversy among the haughty Ashrim, as some surely regarded it as inviting the obsolescence of their own tradition."

Xorus says, "Thus, there was an assassination plot formed by some Ashrim with like-minded Nalfein, who were otherwise maritime rivals of each other."

Xorus says, "The conspiracy was witnessed in mutual vision by Chesylcha's sisters, as well as the Nalfein assassin. Their guilt was so much fact."

Swige quietly says, "Tricky folks."

Xorus says, "This was an act of regicide that sparked a conflagration in the context of a reactionary diplomatic setting."

Xorus says, "Those who stood to lose from the alliance were not going to help save it, and the Ashrim were not going to sacrifice their own royal family members."

Xorus says, "The Faendryl were left with no option but to try to compel the Ashrim to turn over their traitors. This was essentially a political action that was never intended to erupt into battles, in spite of the seething anger of many of the Faendryl."

Xorus says, "The Faendryl constructed a whole naval fleet that floated above the water, an act that was symbolic on multiple levels. It was deference to their seafaring tradition as well as a signal of futility against the inevitability of history."

Xorus says, "Mind you, if the utter annihilation or conquest of the Ashrim had been the intent all along, the methods of warfare would have been completely different."

Xorus says, "Their own propaganda is that the Faendryl were inexperienced warmongering idiots. Floating fortresses fueled with hubris and resentment."

Shiril raises an eyebrow in Xorus's direction.

Xorus says, "War is policy by other means. Violence is the last resort. The ideal is to compel others to your will without costing yourself."

Xorus says, "Unfortunately, the Ashrim took a unified opposition to this act of justice and exploited our deference to their traditions, refusing to allow their monarch to be escorted to stand trial. They were the ones who committed the dreadful act of kinslaying by drawing the first blood."

Xorus says, "Their methods involved dispelling the magical wardings of our ships. Maneuvering around those with failed propulsion. Weather augmentation of storm fronts."

Xorus says, "The Faendryl fleet not designed for naval battles took very heavy losses. The war was an Ashrim victory up until the moment it was total war."

Xorus says, "This was the price of our magnanimous restraint. The same holding back as with Despana in the Undead War. The same holding back as with the humans in their Third Elven War."

Xorus says, "In the fog of war some of the most powerful Faendryl summoners and mages assaulted the Ashrim isles seeking to capture Matriarch Orlihd and her son."

Mourne looks lost in thought.

Cruxophim glances at an artfully shaped topiary.

Lylia whispers, "The lesson is clear. No half-measures. No forbearance."

Xorus says, "While this was successful in itself, the Ashrim had raised wards against gate magic, trapping these sorcerers in the Ashrim Keep."

Xorus says, "With no way of escaping and without hope of rescue, the keep was imploded and the isles wracked with retribution."

Xorus says, "The devastation was catastrophic. Meteors fell from the skies. The city was utterly incinerated. The very bedrock of the land melted like wax."

Swige's jaw drops.

Lylia smiles quietly to herself.

Xorus says, "Fiends tore through the resort isle of Tashel, tears in reality obliterated the isle of Aelv, the peoples of the smaller port city of Angral were turned to stone and warped with heat. There were many who were slaughtered with powerful demonic including vathor and oculoth."

Xorus says, "This was a shock wave that completely changed the framework of great power politics. The Nalfein vociferously denied their involvement, and decried the Faendryl as Dark Elves."

Xorus says, "The other houses echoes these words, declaring us to no longer be true elves, having fallen so far into darkness."

Xorus says, "The Illistim monarch, now bereft of viable allies, naturally sided with the others who braced for war. Their airships coming to be part of the means of other houses, while retaining control of the 'know-how' itself."

Xorus says, "They became the intellectual apologists for the other side of what happened, and with the Ashrim gone they were unparalleled in elemental magic."

Xorus says, "Thus formed the hegemony in Elven politics that stands to this day."

(Lylia allows her cherry ice to drip on the grass at her feet, clearly too rapt in the speech to remember to take a bite.)

Speaking to himself, Swige interrupts, "Those Nalfein are tricky devils."

Xorus says, "The other Elven houses certainly had not relinquished parts of their own territory for Ashrim refugees. Their destruction as a power strengthened the other houses in the narrow sense, and so their surviving population was scattered across the world."

Ysharra softly says, "People use colorful labels on stratified targets to further or hide their own agenda."

Xorus says, "Caligos Isle in the eastern sea. Bone Island off the Southron Wastes. Ruin Creek in the cold northwest. Farther flung refuges and some few absorbed into the mainland population."

Xorus says, "Those were all doomed. The Ashrim were haunted for their high crimes, lost to isles menaced by dark powers. Ghezresh. Kyr'orvrad. The Vvrael."

Xorus says, "The history of intermarriages are such that it is nonsense to speak of the genocide of the Ashrim. What is in question is the exsanguination of their tradition, the destruction of their lands."

Cruxophim affably mouths, "Bone Isle."

Xorus says, "What happened was the exile of a people for a crime committed by the rulers, their home made into a wasteland, their banishment to haunts of dark powers, their cousins turning their backs upon them for their own narrow interests in abject hypocrisy."

Xorus says, "The Faendryl were condemned as a fallen race, by the Nalfein no less, who incited the humans against us only a few centuries ago."

Xorus says, "The whole population forced to abandon their home for desolate wilderness with little expectation of survival."

Xorus says, "This is only in accord with Elven tradition. The royals and their people sharing the burden of sins."

Xorus says, "If a few score summoners condemn the Faendryl, surely the same is true of the Ashrim military."

Xorus counters, "Is it not having it both ways? Innocent civilians and collective guilt?"

Xorus says, "The failure of the Ashrim to maintain a cohesive identity and bloodline in their diaspora speaks only to their failure as a tradition."

Xorus says, "The failure and obsolescence of their ideals. Their failure as a people. With our cousins absolving themselves of their own guilt."

Xorus says, "In the wake of this catastrophe the Faendryl dismissed the limitations of their punishment. They turned their backs on their cousins and the old ways."

Xorus says, "They constructed a new city on the surface, with a society planned from the top down. The emphasis was on novelty, discovery, and great ambition."

Xorus says, "Those 'dark magics' were more widely embraced. The Palestra academies were founded, drastically expanding the scale of summoning."

Xorus says, "Where once we would rule over the lesser races of this world, our empire would now be the dominion of all worlds."

Xorus says, "And so it has come to pass that the Faendryl remain the strongest and most powerful force of this world."

Xorus says, "Whilst our cousins cling to ways of old, looking backwards, helpless to the threats from beyond."

Xorus says, "In the future the continent may become ruled by the Faendryl. For now we are the only island of stability while the world around us crumbles."

Xorus clenches and relaxes his fists several times.

Xorus concludes, "The Ashrim were swept into the urn of history. In the end our cousins will choose whether we bury them as well."

Speaking amusedly to Xorus, Shiril says, "I approve of your concluding phrasing."

Speaking to Xorus, Ysharra says, "Most excellent, Professor Xorus. A very meticulous argument."

Speaking in Faendryl to Xorus, Maltreis says, "Your reputation did not do you justice. This was an incredible pleasure."

Goldstr says, "I applaud yer history .. nae sure bouts yer future desures."

Swige asks, "Are there no Ashrim left at all?"

Xorus says, "History will reveal itself."

Speaking to a lean alabaster white imp, Ysharra says, "Uncanny creature, you are."

Tredohal nods.

Speaking pleasantly to Goldstr, Cruxophim reasons, "What is a soul without ambition?"

Speaking in Faendryl, Tredohal says, "Well spoken."

You say, "It is suggested there are remnants who have intermarried with the other houses."

Speaking to Xorus, Ysharra says, "That isn't necessarily true."

Speaking to Swige, Lylia says, "There are those who call themselves Ashrim and wrap the rags of their traditions about them."

Shiril cocks her head at you.

Xorus says, "They have bred into other populations, such as the humans of Ruin Creek."

Shiril whispers, "I was merely pondering your commenting about the intermarrying."

Speaking in Faendryl, Tredohal says, "Everything that made them Ashrim is gone."

Shiril whispers, "They aren't quite pureblooded at that point."

Xorus says, "One of their royal mages, Malaphor, was slain and his apprentice fled here only two decades ago."

Shiril shrugs at you.

Speaking in Faendryl, Tredohal says, "Even if they live... somewhere."

Tredohal shrugs.

Xorus says, "Bringing the box containing Daephron Illian."

Speaking to Xorus, Swige asks, "Malaphor was an Ashrim?"

Speaking to Swige, Xorus says, "Yes."

Ysharra nods at Melikor.

You quietly whisper to Shiril, "There were undoubtedly some survivors, but I cannot imagine there were enough to repopulate a House and I feel certain they by and large absorbed the other cultures."

Shiril nods in agreement to you.

Xorus says, "He was with the ships that arrived on a small continent to the northwest of us."

Shiril whispers, "I largely agree. I do wonder if there are some pure bloods about, though. It isn't impossible, I should think. Just not enough for, as you mentioned, repopulation of an entire House."

Speaking to Xorus, Lylia says, "Thank you so much. You are an even finer speaker than I recall, and I had already gilded the memory of your talks."

Tredohal glances at Cruxophim.

You quietly whisper to Shiril, "It is possible, but I would think... not without quite a lot of inbreeding."

Shiril nods to you.

Lylia says, "Thank you all for being here, in fact, particularly our most honored guest."

Speaking to Lylia, Ysharra says, "Sure to never rust now, then. Knowing your attention to detail and logic."

Ovtrok asks, "You mentioned dark forces running against the Ashrim wherever they landed... Ghezresh, the Vvrael.. but what was the third?"

Shiril whispers, "Mm, yes. It does happen."

Shiril glances at Tredohal.

Speaking jokingly to Ovtrok, Cruxophim suggests, "Xorus."

Lylia says, "We may have another guest soon, in fact, if you would like to stay and ask questions, enjoy some ices or teas."

Cruxophim flashes a toothy grin.

Ovtrok begins chortling at Cruxophim.

You quietly whisper to Shiril, "Indeed. I do not think they can ever again be a force to be reckoned with."

Lylia grins at Cruxophim.

Lylia admits, "Probably."

Jeril tickles Lylia.

Xorus says, "There is an island off the Southron Wastes inhabited with savages. They worship a demon named Kyr'orvrad who collected the bones of the Ashrim."

Cruxophim leans softly against Jeril.

Ysharra asks, "What was the one at Ruin Creek, out of curiosity?"

Lylia flatly says, "Still not ticklish."

Jeril grins at Lylia.

Lylia flashes a quick grin.

Ovtrok exclaims, "Neat!"

Speaking fondly to Xorus, Cruxophim remarks, "Sounds delightful, I shall have to pay them a visit for some tips on decor."

Ysharra says, "My father told me once, but I no longer remember. I was...four, I believe."

Xorus says, "The Vvrael killed many at Ruin Creek. I am uncertain how many still live."

Speaking to Xorus, Ysharra says, "According to him, none. But it's hard to keep track of their deaths now."

Speaking to Xorus, Ovtrok asks, "Where is Ruin Creek?"

Speaking to Ovtrok, Xorus says, "It is a small island continent northwest of here, and north of Teras Isle."

Ysharra says, "Across the glacial waters from the northern settlements."

Goldstr says, "It do be on global maps."

Xorus says, "Not so far west as the Shattered Continent of the krolvin, but south of the arctic."

Ysharra says, "Just barely. It's hard to reach, as it's well north of the closest ports from Western Elanith."

You suggest, "If nobody has further questions for him, perhaps we might see if we can find our other visitor?"

Goldstr says, "Take care an have fun friends. I have duties to attend."

Shiril pleasantly says, "Have a good evening, lovelies."

Lylia says, "Yes, I got a missive from Ainfore earlier."

Speaking in Faendryl to Xorus, Tredohal says, "A very interesting view of our history. One I agree with ."

Xorus says, "The way he is depicted in his temple, he emerged from a volcano. Some much more ancient provenance surely."

Speaking in Faendryl to Tredohal, Xorus says, "I am honored, Ambassador."

Lylia says, "Emerged from a volcano? Much like that vathor not long ago...mere weeks."

Speaking in Faendryl, Taelarn says, "Pardon me, I have some things to take care of but I greatly enjoyed the lecture."

Speaking in Faendryl, Xorus says, "There is some history of great demons sleeping in the heat of the earth."

Speaking in Faendryl to Lylia, Maltreis says, "I could see that eruption all the way from where I was on my journey from Ta'Faendryl."

Speaking in Faendryl to Xorus, Taelarn says, "Thank you very much for all the hard work you invested into it."

Ysharra says, "He has lore suggesting affinity for calderas."

Speaking to you, Lylia says, "Have you seen Ainfore? I hope he has not become lost. We are a bit out You say, "Not since earlier. I did suggest he perhaps rest in the lounge."

The voice of Perchta mutters, "Sorry."

Speaking in Faendryl, Nazarr says, "Thank you. That was excellent. I'm very glad that I got to hear it."

Speaking to Xorus, Ysharra says, "I certainly was rapt with attention. In fact, I feel melancholy that you are done."

Lylia agrees, "It was a rare pleasure."

Xorus says, "Not as done as the Ashrim, surely."