What kind of Timeline we working with here?<br/><br/>I wanted to enjoy some of the other plots and involve myself in the world politics but Vael's initial goal is to learn to become a master weapon maker.<br/><br/>"Creator of Damascus Dragon Steel" (Damascus being the way the iron of the steel is forged) or something like that before involving myself in the wars.<br/><br/>Such a quest can't be done overnight, so I was toying around with the idea that Vael left the nest a few years earlier (and has just resurfaced, in one of the plot threads) or he is traveling the world, looking to learn more secrets to crafting blades from the various humans/elves in the world.<br/><br/>I have a feeling if He leaves the nest in the current time line, I would never get to the wars/learn to be a smith in time for it to be useful IC.