With a muffled grunt, Eilistraee was flipped straight onto the ground.
She flipped back up without a care, layers of silver light swirling out from her to form countless daggers that blocked the sky-filling moonblades.
The female drow, Vhaeraun on the inside and Eilistraee on the outside, chuckled twice. "Ah... I really didn't expect that the Daughter of Dark Night, who always avoids combat, would actually make a move herself!
How interesting. As it turns out, the more schemes you make, the more useless they are."
Seeming to think of something, she smiled quite happily... probably realizing that Rose, who always seemed to have every contingency covered, had actually gotten everything wrong this time.
At first glance, Rose's scheme this time truly looked extremely perfect... No matter how many Steel Dragons came, Lathander could never step in to help Shar fight the metallic dragons of the Good Alignment.
As for Selûne, facing Eilistraee—whom she loved so much she was even willing to share her moonfire with—she would surely hesitate as well... Leaving aside the old Selûne days, even after thoroughly reverting to Selûne, she had never chosen to retract the authority over that portion of the moon she had distributed to this girl.
Selûne was capable of gathering the Silver Moon Power entirely to herself, just like Shar of the past... but she understood letting go even earlier than Shar, and thus was the least affected by her divine portfolio.
Only... compared to other gods who were influenced by their own laws, the fact that all her actions stemmed from her own will only made people find the Moon Maiden all the more terrifying... Jumping into the vortex of her own accord was something most gods still could not do.
And then that Lord of Aglaia, how could he possibly