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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khorod" data-source="post: 2137903" data-attributes="member: 1636">Continuing Kes TreesContribution:For three years the halflings were no longer persecuted- they were stalked.  Eventually, the Flame of Kes was discovered to be from the Kes trees.  Within 10 years, these countries all had the secret of Flame of Kes.  Nistadeen mostly set it aside, halfing intended only to find countermeasures to it.Eyros intended to burn every halfling vessel in the waters.  That's when the halflings revealed Kestrel Flame.  Kestrel Flame is even more potent than Flame of Kes.  The oils of Kestrel Flame will burn under water.  They will burn with an intense heat that can eat through wood, or flesh quite readily, and ruin armor and weapons as well.For five years the seas were covered in flame.  And not only the ships.  The occasional misfire of the halfling artillerists covered the waters in short walls of fire.  Eventually, such fire was used as a maze.  Ships should not sail through such barricades, else there hulls be burned through within an hour.Eventually, those powers that were engaged in the War of Burning Water managed to establish an unspoken truce- Kestrel Flame would not be used, and only the halflings would touch Flame of Kes.  The Halflings were horrified at how this all played out, and most prefer not to use the fire at all.</blockquote>