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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6778659" data-attributes="member: 6777052">Infántilë and Rylnethaz ran with quite unseemly haste along corridors and oak-lined galleries, playfully bumping into each other and laughing like children until the reached the throne room where King Gil-Galad was holding court. "Daddy! Daddy!" shouted Infántilë, "I've found him! This is the one!"The king gazed sternly down at a breathless Rylnethaz, who just about remembered to bow courteously. "Not very tall, is he?" remarked the king. "Oh well, I suppose you know what you are doing. Have you acquainted him with the seven-fold quest?"Rylnethaz has a sudden sinking feeling and glanced sideways at Infántilë with a quizzical expression. "I think so," she said with a sudden doubt creeping into her mind. "Didn't I tell you, Rylni? I must have told you? Oh, it's all a lot of nonsense, anyway."The king didn't wait to be asked, he simply informed Rylnethaz of how things would be. "To win the hand of my daughter, you must succeed in seven quests, each more deadly than the last. Your first is to recover the golden sword of Itraphon from the dungeons of Forelost Abbey.""And of the others?" asked Rylnethaz, "I trust they are not too trivial? None has yet returned alive, and so on?""One may reasonably assume," said the king in a ponderous voice, "that none has yet returned alive from the seventh. Beyond that, you may draw your own conclusions.""Before I begin these quests," said Rylnethaz, "There is the matter of the dowry. Your daughter, though a fair and lovely prize for any king, deserves to be kept in the manner to which she is accustomed. What had we in mind?""Half my kingdom," replied the king as if he were rehearsing a well-worn script. "The boring half, naturally. I keep the interesting provinces with the towns and cities that generate wealth and trade, while you get the useless ones at the margins that will need armies to defend them but do not provide enough income to pay the soldiers.""Every challenge is an opportunity," said Rylnethaz tactfully. "It is a fair offer. I will speak to my advisors." The he bowed again and withdrew, taking Infántilë with him.Out of earshot of the king, they had a flaming row.</blockquote>

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