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ike loons, a sound that either brightened the hearts of the cheerful or disturbed the hearts of the distressed. The homes and structures of the Li�reigh were a marvel to see, craftsmanship that was blindingly beautiful to the eye; and unseen anywhere else outside the Freeland Woods. Nowhere was such structural beauty apparent save for in Palimaar; this was due primarily to the premise that not only were the Li�reigh and the Elves exceptional artists, architects, and craftsmen, but with the enchanted properties of the Le�igro spreading throughout the forests, the process of sauriis was made possible: this was the melding of wood and stone together as one; where it became difficult to distinguish where the woodwork ended and the stonework began, all the while keeping the wood of the trees alive; even as it circulated through the stone. The end result was wondrous to behold, beautiful and enchanting. The Freeland Woods seem to glow continuously. At night, amidst the luminescent pamalrose blossoms and starlight, the Woods glistened like an enchanted forest. Dwellings and establishments were built above, around, and inside the trees of the woods. Especially among the great aspoors, whose trunks could grow in width to that of a small cabin sailer; trees that climbed two hundred feet into the sky, and wherein the structures that somehow looked like conical alien flowers found their place no less then fifty feet above the forest floor. Here they appeared to float above and amidst the leaves of the great trees that spread vast canopies throughout the Woods, and hiding all within from the prying eyes of the outside world. Today, on the outskirts of the Woods, on the grassy plain known as Ni�alni, the hired help were putting up a large platform for one of the Guests of Honor for tomorrow night�s extravaganza. A bard and his band were scheduled to play for the Queen Eldari Siilvers. The bard�s performance would mark the end of the seven-day ceebration of Olias� Visitation, which was a weeklong commemoration to Olias; a cleriist that influenced the unification of clerics and druids and their religions so that the believers of different faiths could live together harmoniously. Tomorrow would also commemorate Queen Eldari�s seventy-fifth birthday, and for a Li�reigh with the capacity to live to be one hundred and fifty, Queen Eldari Siilvers was often told that she didn�t look a day over forty-five. The Visitation was filled with an assortment of festivities including parties where folk exchange gifts, lengthy and sumptuous series of banquets, festive masquerades, and solemn religious sermons. There would be contests of all types and even a mock sea-battle just outside the harbor off the Iicapas Bay. A week prior and dozens of rovers, gypsies, Gnomes, and Dwarves came in to set up a carnival almost a quarter of a mile south from where the were working. The Whispiirs Festivo took the entire day to set up the pavilions, tents, and rides, the last of which had been designed, crafted and engineered primarily by the Gnomes of Kiltaar and Dwarves of Maramaar. And by noon the next day the carnwas ready to fly. Special customers� coaches pulled by teams of horses circled the carnival and the historic sections of the Woods every hour on the hour, traveling between the Whispiirs Festivo and the city of Whiispiirheart, wherein was the palace of Queen Eldari.