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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3581617" data-attributes="member: 3448">True enough, if you care about precise factual accuracy.  Obviously, Alistair doesn't.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (To be honest, I'm just glad the Eldar didn't have a more important person to test it on....)* * *Young Lord Brightspan knocked politely and entered the room.  “Dame Brionna and Dame Katherine wish to inform your grace that they have returned.  They await in the Council chamber.”“Oh, please, have them join us, my dear,” said Lady Meredith.  “We have concluded the matters that I wished to keep private, and there are some matters of state that we should discuss.”Alistair nodded to his page, who quickly went to fetch the knights.  They knew that something unusual was taking place, because there had been two immaculate minotaur guards in mithril half-armor and with mithril horseshoes supplementing the Archducal guards outside Alistair’s chambers, but they had not understood the significance.  Dame Brionna and Kit entered and Alistair introduced them to Lady Meredith, who smiled and greeted them warmly.“I am an old friend of his grace’s family, and we were taking a moment to catch up and discuss matters.  But I am glad that you have joined us for the next discussion.“As you know, Lady Amelia was a member of a fairly secret order centered in my Enclave, but covering the entire north of the continent of Drucien.  I tell you this because you probably do not know that her passing has left a void in the South.  We have always had one and often two south of the Barrier Mountains.  Now we have none.  We are an order devoted to the rule of law, good government, the end of slavery, and, for some of us, the ending of the eating of beef.  I ask that you consider, even in the absence of a mage of her power, appointing an associate member to the Order of Northern Aurelian for the good of all the lands of Drucien.”“Of course, we would be happy to nominate a new member, although it may take us a little while to identify the right person.”  Alistair paused for a moment in thought.  “All of the members of your Order that I have known of have been women.  Does your Order accept male members, or should we concentrate on identifying a female wizard?”“The Order does not discriminate on the basis of gender, although you are correct that most of our members happen to be women.  We currently count two male wizards among our number, a gnomish artificer and an elven archmagus out of the Forest of Singing Leaves, although he now lives in a keep north of the mountains, because that is where his research has taken him.”“Very well.  We will consider who the best nominee would be, and then we will let you know.”The discussions continued for some time, and then Lady Meredith excused herself to prepare for the banquet.  [I have a note here that they discussed “the evil fae.”  I can’t figure out what that refers to, although it might be a reference to the Privy Secretary’s mother.]</blockquote>

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