That night, who knew how many rounds of tender passion they went through? At one point, Queen Mother Filfaeril thought Aaron and Alusair had drunk themselves unconscious in their room and went to check on them. After listening at the door for a while, however, she left thoroughly satisfied and instructed the Queen's Blade not to disturb them.
The next day, while the festivities celebrating his appointment as Shogun continued, Aaron formally requested the establishment of the "Edict Knights" in his capacity as Shogun.
In just one day, Alusair had become radiant. Her face looked as though it had been glazed with honey, and joy and excitement suffused her from head to toe. Faced with Aaron's request, the Princess Regent merely unrolled the parchment for a cursory glance before stamping it with her seal, officially beginning the recruitment of "Order Knights" from the nobility throughout the kingdom.
The proposed organization of the Five-Color Banner Army had previously met with opposition from both the Kingdom Council and the Princess Regent. It was not that the great nobles and Alusair refused to agree, but that everyone found the arrangement strange. Neither eastern nor western, it felt like neither Cormyr nor Kara-Tur. In the end, it was rejected.
Aaron had not insisted. He had originally thought the Five-Color Banner Army had plenty of potential. Once his forces expanded, he could add the Red-Bordered Banner, Yellow-Bordered Banner, Blue-Bordered Banner, Purple-Bordered Banner... March through the passes, march through the passes, and foster great ethnic unity and integration between the Anauroch Great Desert and the Cormyrians!
Seeing that no one seemed to like it, Aaron decided to follow tradition instead.
The knightly order recruiting noble scions from across Cormyr was renamed the "Edict Knights." Any professional of noble birth interested in participating in the northern expedition