Devaguea gave her a slightly amused look at her declaration of his amusement value, before shrugging and nodding. "Good bye and good night, Nyrissa."<br/><br/>He snapped a wing out to catch Nyrissa on the deceptively soft but strong flesh of his wing, before carefully shifting her to rest more comfortably on his back. He then took her to her room, and carefully deposited her back in her bed, before heading out to his normal morning routine of meditating in the gardens before taking flight around the city.<br/><br/>Today's big job was having Nyrissa use legend lore on the sword, so they could start working to destroy it. After they figured out how, they would do that as soon as possible, but since that involved planar travel, they would have to wait a few months. Another major task was that they needed to send funds to the former town of Fort Drellin, now Numestown, and begin integrating the town into his nation.<br/><br/>But the most important thing that happened during the month of Arodus was the declaration of the day of remembrance, to thank the guards and soldiers that protected the people, and those that had given everything so that others didn't have to. Three memorials were finished and unveiled during the month.<br/><br/>The memorial that had been dedicated to the people lost during the giant owlbear attack now had two new additions, one related to 'The Brave Eight,' six guards and a pair of 'retired' adventurers that had charged the owlbear to buy time once it moved away from the city walls. It had sculptures of the eight walking toward the original owlbear memorial, not looking heroic, but more like they had been like in life. All of them were relaxed and smiling, like they had been just walking about on a normal day, not walking toward certain deathlike they did. The plaque nearby bore a simple inscription, under the eight names. '<em>For those who said not one more, we thank you. You gave everything you were, everything you had been, everything you would have been, just to buy time. Even as the monster turned on you, stung by your defiance, you held firm. To the Brave Eight, may your rest be long and peaceful, your duty is done, more so than you could ever have been asked.</em>'<br/><br/>The second memorial related to the owlbear attack was 'The Unknown Adventurer's Grave,' and had been raised near the Brave Eight. It held only three stone replicas of items on a pedestal in front of a mausoleum, all that had been found of the adventurer. A shattered shield, a broken broadsword, and a single gauntlet sheared free of the rest of the armor. Nothing of the adventurer themselves was found. Two guards were always at attention nearby, and another two patrolled around the immediate vicinity of the grave. The pedestal was adorned with a plaque that read, '<em>Our thanks to the unknown hero whose effects lie in this tomb in state. You did the impossible, and stopped the unstoppable for thirty seven seconds. You willingly charged death, head high, for people you did not know, simply so that they would have a better chance at living. We known nothing of who you were, not your name, your race, your gender, not even why you were there. All we can offer is our thanks, for the families that lived, because you did not. May you rest easy, and your sacrifice never be forgotten.</em>'<br/><br/>A third and last memorial was a simple wall, magically enchanted to resist weathering and damage, made of a single solid black material. On it was the name of every man and woman that had died defending the nation from threats, be they guard, soldier, or adventurer. Every name that the bureaucrats could confirm was added to the wall. And every hundred feet or so, a statue of a guard, soldier, or adventure was saluting, waving, or walking into the wall, seamlessly merging with it as they joined their fellows, the names flowing around the statues. Dev wandered the memorial on its first day in one of his alter forms, pausing to reflect on those he had failed, and made a silent pledge that if he ever came down here and didn't feel like he had failed the names on the wall, he would abdicate his throne within the week.