"The banquet, the banquet is starting! The grape pudding and egg tarts are ready.
The dancers are prepared, along with lights, flames, fine wine, and delicious food.
Make yourselves at home, honored guests. This is the Eternal Forest; this is the Elven Royal Court.
Kind and friendly hospitality is an elven tradition. All evil is destined to have nowhere to hide.
If you are a good adventurer, please take your seat quickly. Hot fruit tea will moisten your lips.
If you enjoy admiring beautiful things, please take your seat quickly. Ancient carved reliefs are sure to catch your eye.
If you wish to seek the Goddess's guidance, please take your seat quickly. The Grand High Priest of the Church of Life is about to make a declaration.
Today is a wonderful time, and this moment is a perfect banquet.
Children may collect candy, and girls may dress in dancing skirts.
Come, come, come! An eternal life has long been arranged; all that remains... is for you guests to adorn its brilliance..."
At the entrance to the Elven Royal Court's palace hall, this bright, cheerful song echoed over and over. Under the clear illumination of divine lights, the faint figure of a little fairy in a pale green short skirt could be seen dancing along with the tune.
This was undoubtedly a grand banquet, because it had been personally organized and attended by a Bright Moon clergy!
In fact, news of Aikar's banquet had spread throughout the Elven Royal Court a day earlier. Nearly every elven noble knew that their Grand High Priest had convened a "Legendary banquet," said to be a once-in-hundreds-of-millions-of-years event, in order to discuss "curing the plague, saving the Eternal Forest, and crusading against the Evil Archmage Whisper of Destruction"!
According to the announcement, all elven professionals