5/30 session recap

The party was finally invited to speak to the assembled leaders of the Ten Clans, but it wasn't a warm welcome. The various nobles were too wrapped up in their own affairs to care much about some emissaries from their backwards southern neighbor. The message of friendship was delivered, however, and the party started talking about hanging a banner up saying, "Mission Accomplished".

Karl (Kerstan's brother) approached Melicertes, and suggested that they might have something in common in terms of special powers. Melicertes didn't seem to care.

Marquis Leo Astarane visited the party back at their Inn, and was going to help them return to Bos more quickly, but upon hearing about their scattered personnel and cargo, he said that he couldn't help. He was interested in setting up a wizard's tower somewhere in Bos, out in the middle of nowhere, and said he'd be down to speak to the new Duke soon.

Kerstan came back to the Inn and said that the Queen had made two decrees. The first was that all Duchies within the heartlands were to send a noble representative with 100 thousand gold pieces to the capitol. This was to both ensure that the duchies were loyal, and to help fund a new army. The second measure was to declare that martial weapons were no longer allowed outside of official soldier, police, and the private staff of loyal nobles.

Lady Verisable and Duke Opperman offered to represent the clans to the queen, and Verisable even offered to take up the financial burden for clans that didn't or couldn't cough up the gold.

Kerstan said that the Queen's emissary was heading to Bos next, and that perhaps the party could speak with them personally on the return trip. So the party spoke with the emissary that evening, and he agreed to travel with them to Bos. His name was Andrus Lightborn, a blonde-haired, blue-eyes charmer.

During the journey, Andrus revealed that the Queen had received a prophecy from one of the main clerics of Taphallam, god of justice and light. The prophecy seems to indicate an enemy from the South. More specifically, those enemies may be followers of Tulgus. Her decrees have been aimed at securing the loyalty of the various duchies, while taking weapons out of the hands of those who might rise against the leadership of the Heartlands.