Editing Queen Elysa's Ceremonies (section)

=== July 3rd - Frostfell Festival Stone ===
{{Event|High Queen Elysa Strathelar calls the people of Dereth to the Frostfell Festival Stone.}}
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{{Emote|Asheron says, "This festival stone, the second dedicated to your people of Dereth, signifies the bond that you have made and your unity."
|Asheron says, "It lights now for the Houses of Dereth!"
{{Event|Elysa smiles broadly to the people.}}
|Elysa Strathelar says, "We live in a time of adversity, a time that is filled with strife and sorrow at every corner."
|Elysa Strathelar says, "Through it all we stand united in the common cause of making our home a place that is secure for future generations."
|Elysa Strathelar says, "Here we make our peace. Here we recognize the unity of the houses of Dereth, those joined by blood and those bound by oath alone."
|Asheron says, "This stone shall signify that unity and those bonds. It shall be a beacon for the wayward and the lost. It shall be the light in the darkness."
{{Event|Elysa raises her hands.
|Elysa pauses and scans the crowd for reactions.}}
|Elysa Strathelar says, "Derethians. We must speak now of the matter at hand. We are faced with a most frightening foe. One who once was like us." Elysa Strathelar says, "This same group has grown to become an offshoot of both my own Royal Guard and the Arcanum."
|Elysa Strathelar says, "Candeth Martine was once one of us. He came from Ispar like all of you and adventured across these lands as a member of the Explorer Society."
|Elysa Strathelar says, "But he was lost to us, taken by the Virindi."
|Elysa Strathelar says, "Asheron has returned to help us stop the atrocities that Martine has begun. We have seen the destruction that has been wrought upon the world. "
|Elysa Strathelar says, "At the Menhir, magic itself has revolted against the natural order and destroyed the Essences. "
|Elysa Strathelar says, "But now it is threatened."
|Elysa Strathelar says, "And though, with aid from Asheron, the Arcanum has concentrated components necessary for the casting of magic, mages have become concerned over oddities in workings of magic, a lessening in its strength and power."
|Elysa Strathelar says, "The world that we know here hangs in a tenuous balance, an order that must be maintained. That order has until now remained untouched, in balance, complete."
|Asheron says, "The balance Elysa speaks of was threatened only once before,in a time not documented well by my people."
|Asheron says, "It was a time when war spread across this world, and the victors consumed and destroyed the history of the conquered."
|Asheron says, "My ancestors were the victors and the civilization of the Gelid dissolved."
|Asheron says, "The Gelid hid well for a time but a group amongst them...broke free. They were eventually slain, as you may have learned, but they left a mark upon the world."
|Asheron says, "These marks remain in the form of Elementals, beings created from the very essence of magic itself, given form and sentience by those that once commanded them."
|Asheron says, "The goals and machinations of this offshoot coalition were thwarted by the Gelid of Frore."
|Asheron says, "Their tomes and halls were lost to time, hidden from even my sight beneath the weight of a history written victors who did not wish these secrets known."
|Asheron says, "When my people held this land, no one studied the arts of elemental control."
|Asheron says, "The elementals were assailants even then, but they were...less aggressive. In time they became tools of the undead, the Dericost, who have roots that stretch back to a history that we are all better off forgetting, lest we let their power grow anew."
{{Event|Asheron sighs heavily.}}
|Asheron says, "But I fear that over time even the greatest magic fails if not fueled. It is by this avenue that I fear Martine came by his knowledge."
|Asheron says, "He duped Nuhmudira into aiding him in his acquisition of raw power, in the collection of the invisible river's power, tapping into what you call ley lines."
|Asheron says, "The essences' destruction was the first of much to come. What Martine has set in motion...is beyond even my capacity to fully understand."
|Asheron says, "Magic in its rawest form is unpredictable. It is only through temperance and understanding that we can give it the forms of defense, enhancement and destruction."
{{Event|Asheron looks to Elysa.}}
|Asheron says, "We must all band together and stave off his hand. Stop him, before the actions that he has begun have irreversible consequences."
|Asheron says, "To that end, I will be assisting Elysa and the Arcanum in researching the way to curb Martine's plans."
{{Event|Elysa nods to Asheron and then turns her attention back to the crowd.}}
|Elysa Strathelar says, "We will not fail, my people. We shall succeed as we have so many times before when facing a foe bent upon our demise. This world is ours now."
|Elysa Strathelar says, "We shall not stand by and see it ruined."
|Elysa Strathelar says, "I thank you for attending."
|Elysa Strathelar says, "I shall be lighting three more stones over the course of this cycle of the moons, and in that time, much more will be explained."}}
{{Event|High Queen Elysa Strathelar and Asheron have returned to his castle.}}