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C) Arronax brought the mineral before the council. He described its properties and made his suggestions for its use - for tools, weapons or idols. The matter concerned everyone and was put to a vote, which split the council. Those dwelling outside the safety of the walls as well as Halwen the Black were strongly in favour of making weapons out of it, the various guild leaders of Duinmelamar advocated for it to be turned into tools, while Craftspriest Aleon was the main proponent of further investigating the mineral's mysterious properties and turning it into objects of worship. As neither side dominated, they turned to Aleon for compromise, which finally caused Halwen to protest.

"You would have us waste this precious resource on yet more idols, priest? We are not living under the protection of Horith, we are alone in this strange land and we would be fools to squander this gift. Let us turn it into arms, that we may find safety again."

"Do not insult the gods, Halwen. Their powers are far beyond our own and they are our greatest hope."

"We will not find salvation in old tomes. The gods have given us the strength to save ourselves and we must use it. They will not send thunderbolts to save us from invaders, nor do we know if your hopes of reviving old sorceries will result in anything more than a charred corpse. Duinmelamar demonstrated well enough that we are on our own."

"At Duinmelamar we were lost and alone. Now we have the opportunity to once more join with the divine. The path you argue for is a dark one, by making our people into warriors you risk putting them into [i]his[/i] service. Magic guarded us before and it will do so again. Do not make people reinterpret your epithet in pursuit of your ambitions. You're no king, your authority stems only from our support."

Halwen looked as if he were about to burst from the implied threat, but saw that the room was siding with Aleon and kept his silence as the vote passed for the silversteel to be dedicated to the gods. They held hopes of being able to find out more about the properties of the mineral and perhaps how to extract it more efficiently, but most of it would go into the temple.

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The white oak was eagerly accepted and plans were made for large parts of the temple, especially the exterior, to be made out of it. Blue and white were the colours of their homeland and they wished for nothing more than to recreate it as best they could.


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Turn the silversteel into idols, try to investigative its properties, use white oak for the temple
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