To the lands beyond the Rhine
The Argentos’s discuss it for a while, as the show closes with the last few acts, and eventually opt for the night departure.
“Alayna should be up front, I think,” Hylensia said, looking over the line of wagons being assembled.
Phileas looked in the direction of the “stunt rider” girl. “Like we came into town, be just as showy going out?” Alayna had the role of lead rider entering the town, primarily because she was “showy”. She made a good first impression.
“She’s a half elf,” Hylensia said
“Of course! Some of that Elven eyesight!” Phileas replied.
“That, and we are going into Elven territory. I mean, they are Schwarzwald Elves but they are Elves, of course.”
“Though there’s no telling what that means, Hylensia,” Phileas said.
The popular rule of thumb for Elves in Europa is to classify them by color- somehow, the colors they are most associated with in their dress and art also seems to work to define their personalities. The Ardennes Elves are Green, the Savoy Elves White, the Veluwe Elves are Gray, and the Schwarzwald Elves… well they seem comfortable with camouflage patterns. They have a small culture, reclusive, and for thousands of years isolated by neighbors of various types with whom they never had good relations. When the neighbors became Orcs, what relations they did have became vicious, and the Schwarzwald Elves have now held their ground after more than a century of warfare with Orcs.
“Not an open and friendly kingdom of Elves, exactly why they need us,” Phileas said. He called out to Alayna: “Alayna, you have something of the Elven Sight, do you not? If we travel at night, would you be comfortable in the front? I would be there as well, and Og. Most certainly Og.”