Just as all of Avernus was immersed in Li Wei and Xia Lan Veloss's wedding celebration of the century, the friends, family, and Retainers in the Northlands of the Prime Material Plane were able to catch a glimpse of the wedding in Barto Hell through several light-projectors, using the dedicated Weave line that Fischer and his Arcanists had opened and repaired half a year ago.
Yet constrained by current magitech and the despair-inducing spatial divide between planes, by the time they received the "signal," it was still delayed by at least thirteen hours.
Which meant that, by the time they began watching the ceremony, the wedding had, in a sense, already entered its final stages.
But for most people who knew the inside story, simply being able to witness such a grand spectacle with their own eyes was satisfying enough.
Take Kaierben and Laeral, for instance, presently embracing on the sofa. Kaierben especially pretended not to care as he offered his critiques, yet his eyes remained glued to the light screen, terrified he might miss Xia Lan Veloss's entrance.
Though he loved his wife Laeral dearly, who did not have a goddess in their heart? Thus, the old city lord had been rather eager to see just how dreamlike that goddess would look in a wedding dress.
Yet when the enormous Steel Dragon entered his field of vision, Kaierben's mouth still twitched involuntarily.
His heart let out an even fiercer protest and wail.
Why was she in dragon form too?!
In an instant, Kaierben lost all interest.
Right—he had nearly forgotten that Xia Lan Veloss was a dragon too, a Steel Dragon from Amn, an exceedingly rare kind on the Prime Material Plane.
It was only because of the hostility of her homeland's Roznar Family that she had transformed into