A Hero's Rebirth Ch. 10 Live!

Of course, if the opportunity presents itself. Masters are generally protected, but for the societies where it is less so, of course. Wood Elf maidens rarely get the opportunity, but Wild Elves and Mountain Elves the opportunity is there more, and they take it. Often reaping the benefits when the master repays her by requesting her for his next bound partner if possible.

Oh Lord, I WISH I was a good enough artist for this. I don't say I was I was talented enough, because I know enough artists to know everyone has to work for those skills... I have not put in that work. My vain attempts at art before would easily show my inadequacy in the category. I don't think id be able to convey the details you'd actually want from these through the pictures. Making them not serve the purpose you'd want served.

On the battlefield, if Tavorwen went down, Creadean would be the second in command. That's the easy one to answer. "Most skillful soldier" is a hard one to answer. There are a lot of factors, and for example, saying "If there was a free-for-all, so-and-so would win" absolutely favors some skillsets over others. I don't think I could say who is the most skillful. I mean, how do you compare archers to swordsmen? How do you compare either of those to mages? It isn't an easy or fair comparison, no matter how you cut it.

Alright, clearly I have explained things poorly. 1) The creation of a race of elves is not a trivial thing. For the bulk of the work of the creation biological methods are used. Which means a Wood Elf bears Wood Elf children, Cloud Elves bear Cloud Elf children, and so on. Could, theoretically, the Elven gods recreate a Sun Elf, give her to Thomas, and get that train rolling again? Theoretically. But let me ask you this: If you invested your life savings into a "totally reliable" investment, and it turned out to be a pyramid scheme and a fraud and you lost everything... how prone would you be to invest if the same person brought you basically the same concept again saying, "it'll totally pay off this time"...? The Sun Elves died. They went extinct. They no longer exist. The Gods have accepted that, accepted their failure (painful as it may be) and are reserving their strength, energy and resources for preserving their more resilient children, and dealing with their other responsibilities as gods. 2) If you build a cool stove in your kitchen and it catches your house on fire and destroys itself... do you rebuild the stove without modification and try again once you've repaired the fire damage to your house? The entire experience with the Fire Elves was costly im divine resources, and scarred two of the Elven Gods. It also ended up significantly strengthening the demonic forces when the Fire Elves became demons. The Elven gods aren't exactly giddy at the thought of trying to recreate them, when that was how it went the first time. 4) There are a lot of answers here. Divine contract. Love. Hope and optimism. The horrors that could arise if the gods abandoned biology and the soulless vessels they would be created by the former natural process of procreation. Someone is going to help the Shadow Elves reproduce and it can either be the Elven gods as they try and recover the still recoverable Shadow Elves, before they go the way of the Fire Elves... or they can let Archdemons, Archdevils, Evil gods, and eldritch horror step in and do the work instead. Doesn't that sound like a great alternative? (*Sarcasm*) Hope those answers help.

Thank you! It was a work of love to make!

"Dealing with Demons" is usually a Euphemism for a a bad deal that is definitely going to bite you in the ass... or am I wrong? Devils are the ones that traditionally are sticklers for deals and if you can outsmart them you can sometimes out maneuver them. Demons and devils are different things. Both evil creatures from a version of the afterlife, but they are different.

Honestly, right now none of his matrons are what Kathra would consider a threat. While they are important to Thomas, and have important duties, they are still "average" elves right now. We'll have to see if that changes, but right now the real answer is "The ones next to Thomas." Druid's are a dedicated order. They accept apprentice elves at a young age and train them until they are ready to begin service. Druids can come from any of the races, and a few orders even serve as matrons even after becoming full fledged druids. The son of a druid is the only male elf to become a druid master, because only a druid would wish to push their son into the life of a druid. Druids come from every race of the elves, but they are not a specific and unique "kind" of elves. So there are a few druidic masters, but like with most of the elven populace, they are a vast minority.

I think being cast out would be devastating for Heilantu, even if she got another master somehow. She would be emotionally wrecked because she has gotten emotionally attached to Thomas, and has great respect for him, so losing him would absolutely be traumatic. If she didn't find another master her sexual needs, now awakened, would eat her alive. If she did find another master, she'd ne dealing with the bare minimum instead of the complete and utter satisfaction she gets from Thomad. Effectively she'd be on life support, barely making it. Oh, and socially, her standing would be destroyed to. So she'd be mentally, emotionally, sexually and socially destroyed. Not a great thing.

The reason Ufra remained unbonded is because the masters she was set to be bonded to died. Repeatedly. She was going to be bonded to the last master of her clan, but he died. Then she was going to be bonded to a master of the clan that adopted her, then that clan was butchered. She was scheduled to be bonded to another master, then he was turned to stone. She then faced survivor's guilt, and was struggling to be bonded because she got a bit of a suspicious reputation, though that wasn't her fault. She is happy with Thomas, because she is very confident such a powerful master won't die on her. Also, prior to the Massacre, she was not considered the most beautiful by her clan's standards. She was too solemn for the Joy clan. She didn't have the right chin shape, and her eyes were "too big". When only a fraction of the clan's she-elves got to bond, that was enough to exclude her. Thomas doesn't care. He thinks she's gorgeous.

Sure. Mages in combat have several things they need to do to be successful. Cast spells, quickly, cleanly and efficiently, defend and thwart enemy casters, and support their team. All three aspects require a lot of skill, and the area these mages struggle in is the "clean" aspect of their casting. Their spells work, and are fast and efficient, but are a little sloppy, which means an enemy caster can dismantle and counter their spells more easily than they normally would be able to. So, it would kinda be like having a quarterback on a football team that has a great arm, can throw far and accurately, and is aware of his teammates, but is terribly at watching the enemy team, leading to getting sacked a lot and throwing a lot of interceptions. They have a lot of skills, but the lack of one skill really makes them "undesirable". However, if the goal and challenges change, and the aspect of the game they suck at goes away (in this case, no enemy casters to take their magic apart) they can perform well. Since they came along for the Express purpose of fighting off sea monsters, that can't cast magic, counter spells, or unravely their work, they can do just fine. Does that help?

That is definitely a possibility. I won't say one way or the other what the odds are of that, but it is definitely a possibility.

Well, Evantshara is one of the Gods of the Cloud Elves... so I'm pretty sure he'll have some of her daughters as Matrons. ;) (She gave him the Boon of Fortune). Vreshair... and I assume you meant Faligorin not Evenshtara... patrons of the Fire Elves... yeah... the Fire Elves... first of all, as Devils they no longer reproduce sexually for the majority of the time, yeah TECHNICALLY he could tests half-devils with him. They are hateful, incapable of love, and feel no joy or happiness. All they want is spread hate and misery, gain more power, and drag more souls to hell. They ARE NOT ELVES ANYMORE. There are no remaining Fire Elves, and the devils that USED to be Fire Elves are not redeemable, and if he tried, he'd either end up destroying the Former Fire Elf he tries to save when she turned on him, or he'd end up seduced by the powers of Hell and he'd be pulled back to his heaven (effectively dying as far as this world is concerned) before he could be twisted beyond recovery. He wouldn't really be able to "take our as a matron". It would never go well if he tried. As to Water Elmentals, like Spiral, they could... attempt to be sexual partners. But true elementals (like Dust Cloud and Spiral) don't reproduce sexually either. Some elemental type creatures, like the creature Narusil invoked when describing herself as a worthless seducer, do reproduce sexually (though their partners rarely survive) and so he COULD get one of those. Maybe that will happen in the next series.

I'm sorry it takes so long. I googled it though, and professional authors usually take 1-3 years to publish a book the size of this chapter, so I don't feel like I'm doing too bad for an amateur doing it for as cheap as I do.

The betrayal by Ya'av will definitely be expounded on. The fire elves will probably not make an appearance, no. And yes, she will probably return and teach him, but I'm not sure when. It might not happen until the next series/book.

Yeah, Heilantu definitely got a shock this chapter, and we'll have to see how she changes when she wakes up. Truk is going to be glorious chaos for sure.

I get that in my soul! Good stories are always over so quickly.

That sounds a little lenient, don't you think? Lol.