Devaguea carefully examined the sword after recovering from having his magic detecting senses blown out from the sword's sheer power. After a minute, he concluded that they had found Briar, more because of what it was wrapped in than he had identified the weapon. Either way, when it refused to go into the bag of holding, he knew they were dealing with an artifact, so he handed it to Amvarean to hold onto, before dismissing Nordri. The next week, Amvarean, Anke and Devaguea returned to the capital by way of teleport, Sydon and Nordri hanging around Pitax for personal reasons, and Sena saying she would walk back. Camilla had headed north to inform her family of what was occurring in the Stolen Lands, while Devaguea had Talia send word to the Swordlords through her contacts.<br/><br/>Done with that, he began relaxing, or as much as a king could while still doing his duties. His four month old son was finally getting mobile enough to need a dedicated minder, and Sak'bas was too busy avoiding her mother to do that all the time. Thankfully, there were enough women already in the castle they could take turns.<br/><br/>But the first thing he did was present Evindra's shawl back to her, before showing her the sword and asking if this was the one she had been guarding.