Krackor Steelfist:
He searched for Kitheras and the Kora to ask each individually the same thing We are over due the vote for a new Captain, a "New Captain" implies someone different and I don't want the job. Would you be interested? Corym has done a good job and if able, I'd vote for him to continue but it is written in the Company Contract, 1 year.
Think about it.
Corym Ildroun:
"There are those among us born, bred, and educated to such take up such mantles though. I nominate Kitheras Sunblade as my replacement."
Kitheras only half-caught the nomination initially. He found Kali to be intoxicating with her rare beauty, boundless energy, and graceless curiosity, and it was she that held his attention at that moment.
The awkward pause at the end of Corym's nomination is what grabbed his attention. As he looked up and noticed the eyes of the company on him, he played back the last few seconds in his brain and then he heard it anew.
Nominated.
His training kicked in.
He inclined his head slightly to Corym in repayment of the compliments, and took a step forward.
"Thank you for your confidence, Corym. But thank you also for your leadership, your ingenuity in contriving our charter, and the successful navigation of boundless perils during your term." He pumped his fist into the air,
"Three cheers for the Captian!"
After the cheers subside, Kitheras, addresses the companions.
"Corym calls upon my breeding to qualify me for this position. Nobles are born to govern those whom they have been born in superior position to, which does not qualify me to be a first among peers. Though my house is an honor to me, please disregard it as a consideration for your vote."
The difference between the two elves was stark. Corym an idealist and intellectual and possessed of every strength and limitation of the avant-garde aesthetic that only he could envision. Kitheras, born of the same country and possessed of the same genius lived fully in this world, knew its perils, applied his genius to the careful management and negotiation of the real.
"I am happy to serve and lead. Will another put themselves forward so that the election may have a choice."