"I would be disappointed if whoever was responsible had not employed countermeasures against divination. There is always the possibility tht Gheldaketh was just a diversion, though what other plots it could be meant to hide I can only guess at."<br/><br/>Orro smiled warmly at the god-queen in kind, taking the offered hand in his and starting toward the palace. He'd often chosen to be in the god-queen's company at events like this; she was an endlessly fascinating and self-confident woman, though her casual dismissal of those who practiced the arcane did annoy him just a little. While he had no aspirations for rulership himself, Orro did not believe that the avatars of the gods were innately more suited to rulership, and he'd often had to avert disasters brought on by their arrogance, although he always did so secretly and very quietly so as to preserve their image of infallibility. That was, after all, his job - to do the quiet work which the other archmages and god-kings found beneath them. He and his Voidcallers were the clean-up crew of Unther's armies, the surgically-precise blade that excised its problems without making a mess for all the world to see, and they were very good at it.<br/><br/>"No doubt Mulhorand's time grows short, but let us not be too hasty in declaring victory. Besides, when we do finally defeat them, it would be all the better to parade their wealth through the streets in a great procession, both to show its people that they are thoroughly defeated, and to draw out any remaining enemies. That is worth more than all the material wealth in all the worlds."<br/><br/>Espionage and double-dealing were Orro's business, and he always assumed that nothing was as it seemed. For example, thanks to his ability to sense sentient minds near him he knew that another presence followed her servant Jerion, and had long since discovered the man's fiendish nature thanks to some solid work by his servants, chief among them Nashandra, who followed behind her master dutifully as they passed beyond the palace gates. Yes, Orro knew a great many things of which he preferred to let others think he was ignorant.<br/><br/>"Though, i must admit that I did not seek you out to talk about business. Or not just business, anyhow. The time fast approaches when I will need a child to be the inheritor of my legacy, and to that end I must find a suitable mate."<br/><br/><sub>OOC: Orro's Mindsight feat, granted courtesy of Zceryll, allows him to sense sentient beings within 100' unless they're hidden by some effect such as Mindblank that renders it impossible to sense their mind. </sub><br/>