Barien's Challenge to Liissa

I) Who and what

Oh Barien, Iron Duke, Host of Hosts and Dragonforge

Thine names are numerous, none not deserving of declaration,

However, my chosen title today in which to entice your eminence is that of Master of Challenges.

A challenge left your lips, likely lost to many but lusted after by one lady: Liissa. II) Reception

A task that would test her tenacity, trembling she trod the trail that would lead to triumph,

To bring barbarian and our battle-brother to break bread and bitter bonds beat back.

Apprehension accosted our artist of an alliance, accepting arrival of anger over achievement,

But preferring to press this province, preferring the possibility of a pact and peace. III) And then?

Not hindered but helped by more than a handful of hopefuls in this happening

Set about in securing safety, seats and sanctions for the soon to meet soldiers,

Blood, bravery and burdens born by battle formed barriers nigh unbreakable,

Persistent in their pursuit, powering however ponderously they persevered. IV) Plots

Confusion was the constant companion of your conscript in this course,

Drained yet determined, diligently distributing details in diverse directions

Until finally word wandered her way on wings not of war but of warrant to a welcome

Relief rushed as if a river, relishing in the realisation of the respected reaction. V) What happened?

The Dunhearth delivered the dinner delegates, scale shimmering and scarlet sailing skywards,

Meal was made, mirth, merriment and mild manners mixed with the mayhap of mayhem

Yet tensions were neither taught nor terrible as talk tacked from taste to tactics in turn

And so stood our stitcher of discussion, smiling silently sometimes for those swift enough to spy before it slipped. VI) And now?

This oh Traveller is a tale of no treachery or tricks

But of detail, determination and diligence.

Proud am I of my patron of mine performance for the possibilities pertaining power or peace

A fine figure you forged in your fostering of this focus, my thanks from the folk of frost.