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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 9364746" data-attributes="member: 12388">29 Marpenoth - LeaffallNinth day of the third tenday1500 DR - Year of the Sea's Secrets RevealedKenku addresses Queen Raedra at Court. Longsails return captured Cormyreans.SUZAIL, THE ROYAL COURT - An envoy most unusual appeared at court today: a kenku with feathers the color of obsidian, representing the Blackfeather Barrens in the distant land of Veldorn. Of surprise to the courtiers assembled was the kenku’s ability to speak in lieu of relying on an interpreter. A human and a pair of gnomes accompanied the kenku, whose name proved impossible to pronounce. At the kenku’s command, the gnomes produced flawless peridots and emeralds as a gift “to Cormyr and its people,” while the human produced a smooth bar of mithril. This, too, was given over, and the kenku promised such gems, metals, and more would be made available to Cormyrean traders willing to make the long journey to the “Beastlands,” which the kenku representative promised were civilized within its settlements for the purpose of trading, whilst allowing its people “the freedom to roam and hunt within its borders.” In reply to an enquiry from Queen Raedra, the kenku listed several things its people wished to trade for, including thimdror (a kind of small, triangle-headed oxen), sheep, and specific breeds of draft animals. SUZAIL, DOCKSIDE - A handful of ships made port in Suzail today after braving late Marpenoth squalls on the Dragonmere. Among them were a pair of identical longsails out of Veltalar, capital of Aglarond, the Fairwynd Friend and the Talar’s Talon (both built by Myrton’s Fine Seafaring, also of Veltalar), which carried trade representatives of various Aglarondan merchant interests, and a group of Comyrean trade factors and sailors who’d been taken captive near the Pirate Isles after their ship had been boarded and scuttled. Dockworkers spent their evening sharing stories of the crews of the two ships with their families. “As many half-elves as humans, and all smiles and swift movements” according to Albras Jharko. “And plants hanging everywhere aboard ship! When I asked why, a half-elf told me it was their custom. Then she bade me find The Street of Suns and Moons, should I ever visit Veltalar, to see a true example of the beauty she spoke of. Friendly though they were, not one went about their business unarmed.”Two simbarchs, each wearing flowing robes of dazzling blue trimmed in silver cloth, departed the Talar’s Talon in the company of an alarphon representing the Wizards of War. The trio boarded a carriage and left for the Royal Court.</blockquote>

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