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"Merca Undomer stood outside the keep located in the elven capitol, looking to each of her visitors: Duchess Tailynn Telemmaite, amddiffinnwyr guard Tsuriel, nobles Tulak, Arwyn and Cadava of House Aren, a human hailing from Camelot. She had invited each of them to discuss important matters regarding the kingdom's newest ruler and the plans for government following the death of Nolfinwe Telemmaite, the Duchess' husband and the late king of the elves.

Each of them made their way to the meeting room in the keep and discussed Merca and her subordinates' plans. The aim of the next few years would be to establish an entirely new sector to the elven government: The high inquisition. This group would act as the ultimate and final judges of the elves as a whole, upholding and enforcing the laws regardless of the identity of their targets, be it a lowly border guard wrongfully assaulting humans or the ruler of the country themselves showing signs of corruption. None would be safe from the inquisition, their allegiance centered only on the elven people and not to the royal family or a particular group, simply acting as peacekeepers and investigators, keeping the military and the civilians in line with no disparity in their jurisdiction.

The idea was recieved tentatively, with many elves voicing concerns that this group may be used to further subdue weaker elves if placed under the command of someone corrupt themselves, but as it was explained that the high inquisitor themselves would be chosen not by the leader but by the elven people based on their own personality and experience - and that the elven nobles would lead the search for this elf - the proposition seemed to be accepted more readily.

The Uwchfeistr explained that she knew the power of having command of Hynafiaid could not be entrusted to one person, and that a triumverate of Queen, Grandmaster and Inquisitor would be the new basis for decisions made on behalf of the whole instead of one elf having absolute power, ensuring a corrupt king or queen could never again threaten the elves so greatly, dividing decisions and influence amongst several different elves and their subordinates.

The second most important point of the meeting regarded the newest Queen in line: Duchess Tailynn's daughter. Uwchfeistr Merca explained that public unrest had mounted given that Coed Rhydderch had no noble roots and was a mere Capten before he was appointed king by the Uwchfeistr herself only minutes after he had killed Nolfinwe, driving a dagger into his neck. To quell the public's declining opinion of the ruler and to give the throne a clean slate, it was decided that once Duchess Tailynn's daughter came of age she would be the next queen. The child would be the Telemmaite's chance to clear their name after Nolfinwe had sullied it in the eyes of so many elves. Whether she was told of the nature of her own father in future remained to be seen; it may even prove impossible to be kept from her.

Duchess Tailynn reluctantly agreed to this, consigning her own child to the life of a queen before the newly born princess could even speak, knowing full well she would be personally guarded by the single elf had that set the events of the civil war - and her own husband's subsequent death - into motion."