Varis almost gets the merfolk to withdraw their offer, but luckily the lightbearer was persuasive enough so that even his direct negotiations didn't blow the deal. Either way, it looked like the elf just told the merfolk while they were so eager to trade, and it was unlikely such a good offer would be ever made again now that the merfolk knew they could do more with the treasures on the seafloor.<br/><br/>They did bring him a few maps though, but disappointingly they were not shipping maps, they were charts of the ocean floor.