Hello again!

It's a little delayed, but we have concluded the second session of our auction! Once again, congratulations and thank you to our enthusiastic bidders and submitters, this event would have been nothing without your contributions and coin, and I would have merely spent four days shouting into the void trying to sell oranges.

In this session, we managed to garner 25,940,000 gold and an insane 1,230 credits BEFORE deductions! This makes our grand total: 51,950,000 gold and 1290 credits, from which the Asterian Restoration will collect 20% take! This money will be used to further improve and expand the grounds, all of which are available to you, our supportive public. And of course, also offset the costs of this Festival and future Festivals to come!

With the conclusion of our auction, we have also closed submissions of story bids for Lord Scarlatti's golden-stringed gittern! Everyone was so surprised by the number of scrolls we managed to garner within such a short deadline! We have pored over them, selected three finalists, and from those, the Lord Bard has now chosen one.

Congratulations to the Lady Regent of Aster Keep, Tahquil Maris!

We look forward to the publication of her tale, "Footfalls of the Orphaen"!



Skye Bellatere Anchors

Penned by my hand on the 15th of Lupar, in the year 978 AF.