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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 3669555" data-attributes="member: 34958">Caramip's tune seems to have a strange effect on many of the strange, blue-skinned fey creatures as they dance in the air around the gnome, laughing as they each try unsuccessfully to ruin the song with short small-fisted jabs and tugs at her hair.  At the end of the bard's poetry, they applaud briefly at Caramip's steadiness before returning to their former positions.Dartis moves up next and greets the queen, but does not kneel nor does anyone else in the party.  The lithe fey woman arches an eyebrow slightly then asks in a slightly insulted, yet still bored voice, "So men of Dorin, why do you refuse the courtesy of kneeling in my presence?"Silas answers, "He demanded that the criminals kneel.  We are not criminals."The queen moves a hand to her lips, perhaps to hide a smirk or frown.  A light seems to shine in her eyes for a moment before she asks, "You have freed the Lord of the Mountain, also called Land's Death for that is why he was imprisoned by us so long ago.  The Avariel came to us, as they felt both the Locusi and this beast destroy so much nature that we depended upon for both survival and inspiration.  Though we usually shunned the Avariel, in this their cause was ours and so it was we who taught them to understand the threat they faced.  When the creature burrowed once more into its home inside the great mountain, we chained it with song and dreams so that the Avariel would use their magic to slay the creature forever.  And yet they refused this, building a temple to watch over the creature's eternal sleep for killing was anathema to the fools and they even designed a way to awaken the creature if they could find a safe home for it.  So we spent many long years fearing the awakening of Land's Death, and here he is freed from his mountain and ready to devastate our land once more... all because of you.  He will feed, and perhaps since the Lord needs to sleep often he will not disturb these lands for decades.  And yet still, his coming is inevitable.  So tell me once more, how you will not be guilty of what is to come."</blockquote>

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