Reaching the dungeon, Finexia smiled happily, then nodded, taking the merchant to her room, with the quiet promise that she'd explain her duties later. And then she went in search of Ivy.<br/><br/>"So, I nearly died while I was out. That brought a certain clarity to my mind, and I need to tell you what all of my plans are." Finexia told her seriously, settling down. "If I<em>do</em>die, I'd rather you were able to...carry out my work in my stead." Finexia explained, frowning to herself as she organized her thoughts. "You know that I was an elf, of course. I was a resident of Luminor, the kingdom of the dusk elves. A commoner. I hoped to court Princess Vivian, and she had mostly rejected me, but gave me a final chance to meet her via letter. She would give me an honest answer after she took her vows in Bastion and gain the divine mandate of the gods, before she returned to take the throne of Luminor and let her mother step down."<br/><br/>"She is coming through the area next week. I intend to view her passage, and in three weeks, when she is on her way back...abduct her and her entire guard. I'm going to coerce her into a marriage, whether willing or an unwilling marriage under the rules of a conquerer. She'll have the divine mandate, and willing or not, it will make me a legitimate ruler." Finexia smiled at the thought, shrugging and snuggling into the nymph. "Either way...kidnapping a princess won't be missed for long. We will need to increase the potency of our defences, and in that vein I wish to take the monastery of monks nearby. You, and your aura, would likely help greatly with that. If they're blind, they're all but defenseless. And they're all virgins, too."<br/><br/>"While all of that is going on, I've had the kobolds working on a tunnel toward Bastion. I want to access the water supply of the city, and add aphrodisiacs and other drugs to it. Eventually, when we have the army for it, we'll invade." Stopping again, Finexia smiled dreamily at Ivy. "I intend to take captive every priest, priestess, or individual who resists. Those who surrender...will be allowed to practice their craft normally,<em>except</em>for if they would oppose me. All high priests or priestesses will be forfeit, however. They'll be turned into women, when they are not already women, to be properly treated as spoils of war. We'll fortify my Heart there, and then...we'll start instituting a 'tradition' in the local villages and cities, where women on adulthood come to give themselves to my Heart. Those who are virgins will be given a sum of 100 gold, while those who are not, only 10. And those who have particular talent or beauty...as much as 1,000 gold, and access to schools for sorcery, wizardry, or other forms of magic. I also hope, from some of our new...acquisitions, probably the clerics of Pharasma to start, to start a religion to<em>me</em>."<br/><br/>"But once we have Bastion, I intend to conquer Luminor. I want to become the High Queen of Elves. The royal family will be turned to women, and all subordinant to me. Of course, the family will pass down the female line, and I'll marry them out on occasion...and any noble family who surrenders will keep their position of power. Those that don't, will be enslaved as breeders. Eventually we'll turn our attention to the other elven kingdoms as well." Finexia grinned, then her face turned solemn as she spoke more firmly. "But my one, absolute command is this. Any actual treaty or agreement we make, we<em>must</em>follow, unless the other partner breaks the agreement first. Try not to violate the intent of an agreement, either."