>>5398053>>5397522>>5397328>>5397250>>5397230>>5397187>>5397180>>5397162To your surprise, you find the elven armour increasingly comfortable, the longer you wear it. While you can’t deny you miss the weight and protection of your old suit of armour, this new, lighter set offers infinitely more mobility. You’re lighter on your feet, quieter when you walk. While you might no longer cut the same terrifying and imposing figure beneath the mystery of your helm, this leather armour afford you the full benefit of your agility and athleticism. You feel faster, freer… And honestly, quiet debonair.
“You look ridiculous!” The Novice Fleshweaver cackles when she sees you. “What is this attire? And WHAT did you do with your fur?”
“It is dark elf regalia, custom-designed,” you sniff.
“Are you going to a diplomatic summit, or a breeding pit?” she mocks.
“So when you see me in this suit, your mind immediately turns to coitus?” you ask.
That shuts her up, and you hold back a chuckle of your own.
The Drow who you earlier converted prove a more receptive audience. The young males—well, perhaps ‘young’ might be overstating things, given how elves age—regard your new ornamented armour with respect, one quietly whistling in appreciation.
“I am going to the capitol,” you tell them in their own tongue, “to meet with the Queen of Elves, and I wish to be accompanied by elf-men who have witnessed the glory of the Gods of Darkness. Who here will join me?”
You have no shortage of recruits from among your admiring acolytes. These disciples, who bore witness to the vision in the cave those months ago, have apparently attended the sermons of your Elf-Specialist with increased dedication and fervor. They leap at the opportunity to display their piety now, and eagerly take in your tales of conquest and conversion of the dwarves. The Drow scoff and mock at the Throat-singer as the sole present representative of that defeated race, but luckily they do so in their own tongue; still, he seems to sense the insult to some degree, and sullenly avoids subsequent conferences with these elf-men.
Well worth it, regardless. Let the elven court see the influence you and your gods already wield! They should know that their own people see the depth of value in your alliance, ad the superiority of your faith to their dejected atheism.
