On the very day the investiture by royal decree and Cormyr's state banquet ended, news immediately spread throughout Cormyr. Inns and hotels, noble estates, city neighborhoods, and fields on the outskirts were all abuzz with talk of Aaron becoming Archduke of Green Velar.
Three names came up again and again: Princess Regent Alusair, Archduke Aaron of Green Velar, and Waukeen, the Lady of Wealth.
Every version of the story began with Waukeen being captured by Six-Fingers...
From that day onward, the Lady of Wealth acquired a new nickname: Waukeen, "Six-Fingers' Captive."
Waukeen, Six-Fingers' Captive, step forward!
It was hardly surprising. Commoners were most interested in the gods of the Realms, the Obarskyr Royal House, and legendary heroes to begin with, and Aaron's daring rescue of the Lady of Wealth from the Abyss was already the stuff of legend. The opening alone-a greater devil organizing a band of adventurers to rescue a true god from a demon lord in the Abyss-was sensational enough.
From entering Baator to descending into the Abyss, posing as a caravan to search for clues in Samora, fighting the Shining Sisters beside the salt lake, entering the Silver Palace and tricking its inhabitants into revealing Waukeen's whereabouts, smashing straight through the palace walls, fleeing to Alagathoo only to be surrounded by an army, Aaron's epic confrontation with Six-Fingers, the arrival of the Chaos armies and the outbreak of all-out war, the Four Gods joining forces to restrain Six-Fingers while a submarine carried Waukeen to safety, and the day wealth returned to Amn, Aaron had been there throughout. His battle against Six-Fingers before the docks of Alagathoo, in particular, carried such an epic sense of destiny that people compared it to Elminster's battle against Bane.
Waukeen did not conceal the story. Instead, she had the Church of Wealth