>>6075275Are you quite certain?” Queen Ekaterine asks, and not for the first time, once the letter has been sealed. “My… The Prince Consort, he is not an evil man, but he is… His cultural upbringing, and his faith, mean his methods of solving problems like this can be, ah, direct.”
“I thought he was over the idea of making war on the Sylvan Realms,” you reply.
“That was before they were threatening to expose his heritage,” she notes sourly. “And… And implicitly, threatening myself, and his children. Prince Long Wang… Theral… I know he has a good and true heart, he DOES… But I also know he would burn the whole world, to protect his family and his people.”
“Maybe don’t say THAT in the negotiations,” you point out. “They know who is he, though. WHAT he is. We need to address that if they’re going to trust you or me.”
And so the letter goes out, by the Queen’s fastest and most clandestine messenger, to the mountains where the King of Monsters reigns in his hidden kingdom. Two weeks later, the response returns: the Prince Consort is coming back from his ‘adventures abroad’, to support his wife in the upcoming diplomatic discussions.
Now, you just need to decide what to DO about those discussions… And the initial demands their delegation made, in their accession letter:
“We renounce all hostilities against Axios’ issue, and against Hawksong, and the territory called ‘The Old Maple Hill Land Reserve’, and against all therein, and also against Izirina Henzler. In exchange, we ask only three things:
The formal dissolution—eternal and in perpetuity-of The House of Yosef.
A formal renewal of our mutual commitment to our shared Creator Gods and against all our ancestral enemies—foremost, any who would wear the name or fly the banner of the Dragon Kings of old.
And the return of Ezreal Mious, also called Magus Ezreal Van Houtzmann, and various other names, to the land of his birth, for fair judgement in the manner of all Elves of the Sylvan Realms.”
>Do you make any other preparations will you make for the talks ahead?>Write-in if soHow will you convince the Sylvan Elves to coexist with the Dragon King?
>Write-in your approachWhat concessions are you prepared to make, if any?
>Write-in if so
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