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She likes all types of bows. The two Moon-elves are the last of a poorer house which will cease to exist. They are both mages and I would like staves created for the sister's worthy of enchanting with these two Moonstones at the top of the staves. I know you can shape the wood to ensure they are secure and great weapons for a wizard. Also, there will be efforts going on to test the abilities of every age-appropriate person in both villages.
The Academy is not done yet, but we will start training those with talent. I have challenged the city Academy that once we get established our students will compete in their tournament. We will see if skill over family name prevails. I have faith in skills. You can yell a family name at an enemy but they would just laugh at you."
They chuckled again.
He looked at them, "I ask for your support in this effort. The sword ceremony I am assuming my apprentice has extended the invitation to you Elder Strong Oak?"
She smiled. "Between myself and him we are the only two who could possibly put a Moon Blade in a wood-elf offspring. My bet is on my apprentice beating me to it. Given my Grandmother has a wife or 3 lined up for him already."
They laughed and she nodded, "You will have six wives?"
He nodded, "An amulet of health combined with my holy symbol which was not magical and merged into my chest. I spoke with a sage who said she had heard of these kinds of things happening to a god's champion. That was when I told her. Guilty as charged. It enhanced the original item. I am just glad it was not a necklace of fireballs. Like I needed to shoot those from my chest."
They laughed.
"That was all I had, they are being evaluated on skill right now and we teleport to the city to do some shopping. When you see them, especially my human wives, treat them as elf friends. They are friendly enough to me."
That got more laughs.
Elder Strong Oak looked at him, "You are going to have such a large family. When the Lady points you to Wood-elf's I would be happy. My happiness now is what you do in your life. For my namesake, you returned to me. What you do for all of the people and villages. The money and stoves have been a welcomed addition to allow us to improve the quality of life."
He looked at her, "If the elders have any other ideas on anything we can improve upon let me know. The first fuel-less forge has also been put into service. The forest we'll reclaim will be named the Silvertree Woods as we will work to keep areas open to allow the Silvertree to be planted and thrive. I also planted one of the seeds in House Silvertree as a part of my father's funeral. It grew three feet in two days.
She looked around the room, "That is almost ten times faster than it should. Did you do anything?"
He nodded. "I ensured the hole was four feet around and three feet deep. Two feet of it was filled in with horse dung from House Silvertree and our Elven Warhorse. Then I had my father's ashes spread over that. Filled it with dirt. Planted the seed a few inches into the earth. Had my cleric create water over the spot and bless the water to make it holy."
She shook her head, "I would ask the Lady. I think something special is going on with that tree. May I travel with you to study the tree for the day? Along with your surrounding Garden? I do not wish to visit the rest of the city but I do want to see this. As we gave those seeds to you to reclaim the land, I fully understand wanting to put one on the Silvertree estate."
He smiled at her, "You are more than welcome to join me. I will show you to the tree and the gardener who tends to the place. You can see any of my officers and let them know you seek a caster to take you from House Silvertree and bring you back later if you wish. Else we will when we return. You are an Elder and you are a part of my family. Meet us over by Silent Falls, we will be leaving from there shortly. If you are ready now you can ride over with me."
She grabbed a couple of items, "Let us go then I want to meet these 4 new ladies."
They headed out and mounted up. He helped his grandmother onto the back of T'suras.
He talked to T'suras, "She is family."
They rode to the falls and saw everyone was hard at work. He looked into the water and called out to his apprentices, "My two little fishies can come back over here. Dry yourselves off."
They swam back to us and got out of the water. Eldar smiled, "Making progress. I want you to keep it up to build up strength and endurance. But I want you to get mid-meal early so you can spend the extra hour on acrobatics. The course is a good start but start practicing more with your horses and while sparing."
They nodded and got cleaned up. He went and saw his men.
He looked at Tranosa, "Thoughts?"
He smiled, "Rachel is a beast with a sword and shield. She is quicker than her brother. She would make a good Captain. That is an honest assessment."
He nodded. "What of her sister?"
Keyno looked over at her, "She has a talent with a bow that is better than a lot I have seen. I am not used to her bow. But she used mine with an equal skill I would almost say, lieutenant or captain.
Tranosa looked at me, "Her sword work is between that of a private and a sergeant."
He looked at Goldeagle.
He sighed, "They are missing some key spells to be battle worth however they are both very talented. The elder wants to get into enchanting and the younger is eager to ride into battle with you."
He smiled, "Ranking."
He looked at me, "You get them the right spells they could both be lieutenants if you wanted them too."
He nodded. "Nothing is decided yet, I have a complete library so give them a list of the spells you think they should have and I will make them available. Riding skills?" Trick-shot responded, "She might be able to learn what I do but the bow she is using would not be right. The heavy armor would need to go."
He smiled, "Easy fix in the works."
He thought for a moment, "Tell Silversong I want to see her at the evening meal. Concerning her future husband if she has not gotten married yet."
Tranosa nodded. "Thank you all. Everyone that is going to the city gather, please." He had all the ladies, Lieutenant Walder, and Elder Strong Oak. He teleported them straight into the garden in front of the guards who got spooked. He lowered the Elder down and they looked at a twelve-foot-tall tree.
She walked up to it. He looked at the Guards, "I want one of you to get her food, fresh fruit, vegetables, bread, and elven wine with some water. A few slices of cheese as well. She does not eat meat."
He looked at the other guard, "Find the gardener. This is my mother's mother and she came to see the tree and garden. Show her the respect due to me as she is an Elder of her village." He nodded and ran off.
He looked at the ladies, "This is Elder Strong Oak, my grandmother, she wanted to meet the four new ladies. Please spend a few minutes chatting with her then we will head off shopping."
The gardener arrived and Eldar looked at him, "This is my grandmother and Elder of her village. Elder Strong Oak. She came to study the tree and the garden. Please answer any questions she might have and give her the utmost respect. She has my respect and my ear. If she has suggestions, take them."
The gardener nodded and headed over to wait for the ladies to finish talking. After about 30 minutes the ladies could see he was getting antsy. They mounted up and left his grandmother to talk with the Gardner. He looked at them, "Market District, food first. Then let us go to the wedding shop and scare the shit out of that lady who owns it."
Charlemagne and Annette laughed. They gave a review of what happened to the other 4 ladies while they ate. They were a bit noisy but nobody dared to say anything as Eldar's reputation in the city had grown. Eldar checked the food for safety as always. They walked the short distance to the wedding shop and walked in and a saleswoman walked up, "Did you need something?"
He nodded, "The owner if she is available."
She walked into the back. The owner came forward, saw Eldar, and froze, "How, how can I help you today."
He looked at her, "We are looking for wedding attire, four wedding dresses for the ladies here. Nice matching wedding attire for myself and my two ladies that we can wear over our armor for this event. She took the ladies around the store and twins chose the same design with a slight variation as one had one shoulder strap and the other had none.
The other two went with the same white color scheme but went with matching dresses that had more beadwork on it. They got three nice shirts and pants for each of us that matched up. His brides got shoes and gloves. His wives got the matching gloves as well. The owner came up with a figure and he handed her his golden tube.
She looked at it and revised the figure, "This is the new figure for you, Duke Silvertree."
The sales lady looked shocked. He gave her the account number and she wrapped everything up.
He whispered to her, "Repeat customers are not a bad thing. I might be sending a lot of business your way today. If they are in Gray Blade cloaks and tell you Duke Silvertree sent us to see you just assume I am standing here and use my account number to take care of what they want for their wedding. There is a mass wedding event going on outside the city.
One of those getting married will be the nephew of the Queen. You can expect she will hear of any issues. Please let your salespeople know."
She nodded and finished wrapping everything up. He looked at the Lieutenant, "This is why you are here is help carry packages." The ladies laughed. He smiled, "Besides two of them are your sisters." They walked out of the store, "T'suras Unta and bring the others.
They rode down an alley to the sex store. He looked at the Lieutenant, "Wait here. You get a bride. I will bring you here myself or she would probably be better."
Annette and Charlemagne laughed as the others had no idea what store we are going to. We went down into the store and Astria looked around, "I never knew this was here."
He nodded, "Eagle-eye showed it to us."
He went to the strap on attachments. He found the four best ones for each of the new ladies. He saw them over at the strap-ons and he grabbed a second one of the red ones, "This one will be popular for at least three of you if not four."
They chose one and he pointed over, "You should have separate thinner one for anal play. You should each choose one of those. This one will be a bonus."
Eldar went over to the double-ended fake cocks. He found the red one, the little bubbles. He looked at it and it is just a bit too big for anal play.
He picked it up anyway. They got 24 of the new and improved artificer devices that has a cap on it to keep it from going all the way in and would take the command word if being touched by the lady's insides.
He looked at the ladies, "Do I need a new cock ring?"
They all shouted over, "NO!"
He shrugged "You got any more of those gnomish double-ended devices?"
He nodded, "We got an improved model. This one had a setting on it that will cause it to vibrate and turns even if the person does not do it themselves."
He looked at him, "Grab 2 of those with 60 bottles of that lube put on this order. The ladies came up with no surprises and he adds it up and showed him his golden tube and he adjusts the cost. Eldar gave him the account number. Charlemagne placed all the toys and lube away into the play bag.
He pointed out which attachment went to which lady so they would know if he was around or not. They left the store and got on the horse, "Palace district first. We need to see Moon Blade and pick up some sword and dagger, then we can hit the enchanters' row."
Charlemagne, asked, "What did the evaluation reveal?"
He looked at Rachel, "She could be our first human Captain in the Gray Blades if she wants action."
She smiled. He looked at her sister, "I was thinking I still need a Captain for the town protection forces."
She smiled, "That takes care of two. The Wizards are another matter. One wants to be an enchanter?"
Staria nodded, "Finding a Master to teach me is the problem."
He smiled, "My Battle Bard is marrying an Enchanter who is close to being rated a master. I think we could use that to get you in as his first apprentice."
Staria smiled, "I would love that."
He smiled, "We need to talk to her as soon as we get back. I have an idea for your staves regardless and we are going to get your spellbooks updated so you can play Battle Mage when needed. I have the books to make that happen. I have two staves being crafted and someone is going to be sized up for a bow and a new saddle and see if she can fire from upside down if needed.
We also need to get you into lighter armor." She smiled. "So instead of a cloak, we will get you a sash like Keyno wears so it is enchanted but it will not get in the way."
She smiled. "Cleaver idea."
He smiled back, "I only identified the issue. It was one of the enchanters who recommended the sashes."
They went straight through the palace gates while others were stopped and checked. They went to Moon Blades shop.
"I need to see Moon Blade, tell him Eldar is here and I know he is here."
He smiled at the sales lady who looked to be new. Moon Blade came forward. "How are things, Sir Moon Blade? I came to look over some of the swords you have made and daggers. I got new direction from the Lady and I am adding 4 more wives that I wish to outfit."
He looked shocked, "When is the wedding?"
Eldar smiled, "An hour after the blade ceremony. Being performed by the lady herself. If you have not married your new lady yet she can do it."
He smiled. "I think we will do that. Thanks for letting me know. The Queen has us being summoned to the Palace before that ceremony."
Eldar nodded and smiled, "I know. Who do you think recommended the idea to her? To ensure all the city blades made it. She might even throw a surprise at you. But let us look at the weapons."
He chuckled. "I should have known you were behind it."
They walked into the back and Eldar saw the relic anvil for the first time outside of a vision. "Longswords need two of those, and two belt daggers and one throwing dagger."
He looked over, "These are the swords..." He saw a couple on the lower shelf. "What is up with the two on the lower shelf?"
He pulled them out, "The apprentice I was working with that day messed up the mix on the amount of mithril to adamantium. One is a really dark gray and the other is really light. One is six parts mithril to two parts adamantium, for the lighter one. The other is six parts adamantium to two parts mithril, to the darker blade."
He looked at Rachel, "You would like the Darker blade I bet." She nodded.
He looked at Dorothy, "The lighter one?" She nodded.
Eldar looked at him, "Throwing daggers?"
He had three blades.
He had Rachel check the weight, balance, and grip. She looked at me, "This one."
Eldar nodded, "Now two belt daggers identical for my wizards. I have staffs in the work but they should have a dagger as well."
They smiled. He found a matched pair. He looked at him, "We will go ahead take these to the enchanters ourselves." He hands them over to me and looked at the ladies, "These have already been paid for. Charlemagne and Annette, you got your weapons already?"
Charlemagne nodded, and Annette looked at me, "I got my sword."
Eldar nodded, "Add two more throwing daggers, one for each of them."
They smiled. "Do you still have that apprentice?" He smiled and nodded. "Tell him my wives will enjoy the unique look so his mistake is their gain. But, keep to the order."
He laughed, "I will pass it along as we were worried about what you would want to do with the blades."
Eldar looked at him, "I want them enchanted of course they are masterworks thanks to your skill and your forge."
He smiled, "A most profitable night."
Eldar smiled and nodded, "See you at the ceremony."
Moon Blade nodded and smiled in return. They walked out of there with all these weapons wrapped up. He looked at them, "They will not be finished before the wedding. We can get them to the enchanters and get started."
They nodded. They headed to the enchanter's row.
Eldar walked in and was greeted right away, "Great to see you again and you brought some stuff to enchant."
Eldar nodded, "I wanted to know if you have an enchanter who is close to his master level and getting married to a Battle Bard in my command. Does he work here?"
She smiled, "He does work here."
Eldar nodded, "I would like to see his trainer and him."
He waited for her to return, "They will be here in a moment, they are finishing something that will take a few minutes."
Eldar laughed, "Go back and tell them to fold their cards they do not have the winning hand."
She looked shocked and walked back to deliver the message and the three of them came up. They looked a little red-faced, "If I am close to and focus on someone, I can see things. That is how I knew about your card game. The guy picked up a straight flush didn't he."
They laughed. "Yes, you saved us a few coins."
Eldar looked at him, "I have been told he is getting close to his master level." He nodded. "He is just a couple of major projects away."
Eldar nodded, "Let me see if I can speed things along, I have 3 throwing daggers that need to be returning, have a shock effect and a paralysis effect on them. I have two belt daggers that I want the same except for the returning just kick up the chance to hit and damage, then I have unique swords.
I want this dark one to have a lightening effect but in black or the color of the blade. A medium again on the ability, with a chance to haste. Also, a small chance to paralyze. Then I have this lighter blade, I want a medium damage boost, with a white-hot edge like my Moon Blade but no flames.
With a greater chance to paralyze. You tell me which couple of major projects you want to take on and when you get your status my soon to be wife wishes to train to do enchantment. She has the urge you can decide if she has the talent."
He nodded, "I would be boss over your wife and you are boss over mine."
Eldar smiled, "While you are working for me on projects. It is a nice circle." He nodded.
Eldar smiled at him, "You got the talent for the swords?"
He looked at them and what he wanted. "You are asking for some effect changes that are appearance based on the lightning which I would enjoy the challenge of getting that right. I would like to do both swords."
Eldar looked at his master, "Would those get him master's status?"
He looked at Eldar, "He pulls it off yes, you put some stiff requirements on it. Why so much difference?"
He smiled, "One of my ladies will be Captain in my mercenary unit. The other is going to be the Captain for the protection forces for the Duchy. Yes, I was made a Duke so make sure my project costs reflect that."
He handed him the tube and he passed it back, "We can get that squared away. Use your standard account?"
Annette spoke up, "No use my personal account on these. He is always doing this so I am taking this one."
He smiled, "We still have a few things to get. How are you on magical manacles?"
She looked at me, "We have three."
He smiled, "Now you do not. We will take them all. How about bags of holding."
She looked over, "We have six of the medium ones."
He looked at her, "I need four of them for these ladies. Now medium protection cloaks. I need one like mine. I need two that change out the sword into a staff with a moonstone intertwined around the stone at the top. The wood on the staff is made of Silverwood."
She drew it up and made a couple of minor adjustments.
