<div align="center">Aryia (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=88798.msg3898535#msg3898535)<br/></div><br/><strong><br/>"Havien, I am glad you speak so honestly, this is rumor I have heard also but it is not the case. We are in no place to want to conquer and our quaint valleys suit us perfectly. Being under a kingdom larger than us gives us security for darkness riddled throughout our history. <br/><br/>"The only reason I suggest such mirrors and lenses is a method to prevent hordes of men firing these .."</strong>Arya looked at her pistol and shook her head "<strong><span class="bbc_u">things</span>."</strong><br/><strong><br/>"If there is no avoiding foreign soldiers paroling our valleys then so be it but I must insist they use other weapons that can hurt from afar which are not these ! Crossbows and Bows, instead perhaps, things that make less sound is very important. To others sounds of machines are tolerated or even deemed sounds of progress, to us however such sounds ruins so much. Music is much much more important to us we are mostly artists, performers, entertainers, painters and musicians. Fragile happiness and eccentricity is in our blood. Anything that can snap us our of our state of creativity is something that has to be resolved for creativity is sacred to us, and sharp bangs ruin so for much longer than their echo sounds."<br/><br/>Ok now the sweetener.<br/><br/>"Perhaps our gems and nuggets of strange metals we could give to those who could see different weapons formed for wings of this new army which make less sound. Bows which could produce arrows by drawing their form backward - without quiver, without the sharp sounds that destroy our hear for pitch. Aim truer or further or faster than what most bows manage. Not only would be we most thankful but such a force could be more useful for means of being <span class="bbc_u">quieter</span>"<br/><br/>"A kingdom that is fair is something we will support, one that protects us from menaces larger than what we can deal with on our own is vital. We would likely perish without it, we perhaps would in some ways be more dependent on it than others. For this homage, tax tribute and the likes I do agree with. <br/><br/>Could such a force or part of these armies be made that do <span class="bbc_u">not </span>have their black-powered monstrosities. For their bark <em>is </em>their bite, an an assault on us. Before you think I am being petty, know most dont know how much our valley echos, and how timmid some of the creatures we have there now are. <br/><br/>Some can be frightened enough they don't mate for that season. All due to several unnecessary uses of these exploding pipe horrors. " </strong><br/><br/>It was obvious such a meeting would have each voicing concerns and wants for their own lands, what could be petty issues to the kind were much more elsewhere. Still that was their role, and ideally that of the king to manage. How good was this king in avoiding things becoming to petty while seeing to things to keep each area happy ? Seemed now was a time to know.