"My fellow strangers, welcome to my palace." With these words, a male Nightfallen appeared in the sight of the three of them.
This person is a step above the ordinary High Elf. The clothes he wears are very expensive even from Aaron's perspective. There is a faint flash of light on the surface, which is extraordinary at first glance. This also shows this person's extraordinary identity.
"I am Prince Farondis, welcome everyone." Farondis invited the three people into the palace, and Ishkaneth, the messenger, whispered a few words to the prince and left.
Entering the prince's palace, Aaron they were shocked by the interior decoration of the palace. Of course, they did not think that the interior of the palace was very luxurious. After all, the prince had been reduced to finding a house in the ruins, and there was no spare time to show off the prince's profile.
What really surprised Aaron and the others was that this palace with only one empty hall was filled with pieces of magic crystals. Just the magic power naturally emitted by these crystals made the magic level in this palace almost catch up with the highest magic place in the ruins.
Judging from some of the daily necessities placed in this palace, this prince usually lives here. I don't know how this guy lives in such an environment.
"I'm probably going to have problems if I sleep here for one night." Vereesa whispered to Aaron. High Elf are quite sensitive to changes in the concentration of magic power.
Seemingly noticing the gazes of Aaron and the others, Prince Farondis explained, "I'm sorry, my living conditions here are not very good, please don't dislike it."
Well, His Highness the Prince obviously misunderstood, but from the way he casually took a crystal from the pile of crystals on the side and began to absorb magic power from it, maybe His Highness the Prince has become accustomed to the existence of these crystals and doesn't think there is anything wrong with this at all.
On the surface, the prince still looks normal, at least there are no signs of crystallization.
After chatting with Aaron and the others for a few words, the prince began to talk about why he had fallen into this miserable situation. Although Aaron initially thought not to bring up this topic that might not be pleasant to Farondis, it was obvious that Stellagosa was not very able to understand such a thing, and Aaron could not stop her.
When he first heard Blue Dragonflight's question, Farondis showed an extremely sad look on his face, as if he had suffered some very cruel and inhumane treatment. However, he told the story very fluently. The only difference from the actor who was watching the teleprompter board performance was that Farondis's memory should be pretty good. He spoke for almost half an hour and didn't get stuck once.
Aaron Listening to this Nightfallen narrate the so-called tragic experience in an opera-like cadence but very false tone, coupled with his exaggerated acting skills, Aaron felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, liver, spleen, stomach and kidneys.
Vereesa kept an expressionless face, but Aaron keenly noticed that she wanted to reach for her weapon several times. Only Stellagosa listened with interest. It seemed that this girl had never been poisoned by an actor with poor acting skills.
However, Aaron still managed to piece together the prince's experience by comparing Farondis's bad and false story with the plot in his own memory.
Speaking of princes, people will inevitably think of Prince Farondis, Nar'thalas, who has been spurned by his people for ten thousand years. And this Prince Farondis has a similar fate to Farondis, and Aaron can't say who is more miserable.
Like Prince Faroldis, Prince Aerys is also a regional ruler appointed by Queen Azshara, and the area managed by this prince is much stronger than Narthalas. Ailes is the ruler of Suramar.
It can be seen from here that Farondis is obviously stronger than Farondis. After all, Suramar was one of several famous cities in the Kaldorei Empire era, and Nar'thalas is just a satellite city of Suramar.
But the city of Suramar is not so perfect. To put it simply, this city is a bit independent. This is not difficult to understand. After all, Suramar is the headquarters of Sisterhood of Elune, and Sisterhood of Elune can tell from their names that they believe in Elune.
Even though Queen Azshara is extremely powerful and has a high reputation within the Kaldorei Empire, Sisterhood of Elune represents the official belief of the Kaldorei Empire. Although they will not openly confront Queen Azshara, they do not take Queen Azshara very seriously.
And Queen Azshara is also quite proud of her achievements along the way with Arcane. In addition, she is surrounded by a group of Highborne who obey her orders. Naturally, Her Majesty the Queen does not like Sisterhood of Elune who refuses to fully obey her orders.
Both sides are just maintaining superficial courtesy. If both sides were of the same mind, Sisterhood of Elune would have moved its headquarters to the Kaldorei Empire's capital Zin-Azshari long ago.
It is for this reason that Prince Farondis's life in Suramar was not easy. After all, the priests of Sisterhood of Elune still need to maintain superficial respect for the queen, so they will not be so polite to him.
If Kaldorei Empire continues to exist like this, Suramar will probably maintain this situation until the conflict between Sisterhood of Elune and Queen Azshara intensifies, Prince Farondis has no objection to being such a ruler with no real power. As long as he can maintain his position in front of Queen Azshara, he can always serve as the nominal ruler of Suramar.
However, no one expected that Queen Azshara would actually use the power of Well of Eternity to open an extra-large portal and summon the demons Legion to Azeroth.
In order to prevent Suramar from being destroyed by the demons, the mages in the city joined forces to protect Suramar with a magic barrier. The elves in Suramar City did not openly confront Queen Azshara. After all, those who had such thoughts joined the resistance from Mount Hyjal. They just wanted to protect the city in this dangerous situation.
However, not long after the barrier was established, the horrific the Sundering happened. Well of Eternity was blown up and turned into Maelstrom. The ancient Kalimdor collapsed. The elves in Suramar City tried to contact Queen Azshara but couldn't.
At the beginning, the city could still maintain its initial order, but when the elves in the city confirmed the news of the Kaldorei Empire's collapse, several political struggles broke out in the city. In the end, Grand Arcanist Elisande was the supreme ruler of Suramar. As the loser of the political struggle, Prince Farondis was naturally exiled.
When talking about this period of history, Prince Farondis's expression changed frequently, fully expressing his dissatisfaction with Elisande and his depression at being excluded and exiled.
In Farondis's description, he seemed to have become a pitiful man who had nothing to do with the world, but was suppressed by the ruthless and vicious Elisande with all possible means, and finally had to run to this ruins to take refuge.
If this guy hadn't suddenly revealed that he had conspired with a group of frustrated people to assassinate Elisande, Aaron might have believed it.
In fact, Aaron really wanted to hear Prince Farondis talk about his experience of this political struggle, but Farondis was a little vague when talking about it. But it makes sense. If he talked about this kind of thing too much, the bitter image he had just painstakingly established would collapse.
After covering up the leak, and Farondis denouncing Elisande for a while, he finally finished telling the tragic story of the uncontested prince who was exiled by the evil elder sister Elisande. Aaron hurriedly responded with a look of indignation.
Frankly speaking, Aaron's acting skills are no better than this prince's, but Farondis may have not interacted with people for too long, and he didn't care at all how fake Aaron's expression was.