The necromancy book is done, and I think it is the best one so far. It's just so complete, or rather it feels that way. It does have some issues with how much mana each practice requires, but we even managed to partially get around that by allowing the book to temporarily store mana in each page. It is nowhere near as effective as an actual gemstone would be, but I was able to mimic the effects well enough in the very limited space I had to work with.

Now I just need to convince Emericus to help me write the book on Solar Energy. I'll talk to him about that tomorrow.

I met with a diplomat on behalf of Par today. Normally someone else handles this stuff, but they got sick, not infectious thankfully, and Par was busy with a minor emergency. Apparently a whole group of spies were caught trying to sneak in under the guise of refugees, but some mild mind-reading picked them out pretty quickly. I imagine that it is hard to spy on a group that is so used to sharing their thoughts.

Regardless I had to talk to the diplomat. An older man, a mage of some kind though not likely a skilled one. He had a couple of intimidating looking bodyguards, but beyond that, there wasn't much noteworthy about his appearance. He was just a pretty average Biped, I want to say some kind of Dwarf. Or at least closely related. Halfling maybe? I kinda wish I had taken a moment to examine him closer now.

He was here to discuss a fairly major trade deal between our two empires. He wanted food and we wanted a type of magical metal that simply isn't found on this continent, or at least not anywhere that we have dug yet. I found out later that Tiddol requested it for one of her projects, and apparently needs a bunch of it.

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We talked for quite a while, trying to reach a deal that was acceptable for both parties. It was fairly obvious that he was trying to rip us off, though not nearly as much as I had expected. I don't blame him either, he wants the best deal for his people and I want the best for my people. If I'm going to be a goddess I might as well act like it.

Eventually, we did come to a reasonable solution, his country would sell the metal to us at a rate of three times its weight in various fruits and vegetables. But we needed to build containers that could keep the goods fresh during the three teleports and long distribution process, which I will leave to other people to create. I could do it easily enough, it wouldn't really take long. But I didn't really want too, it seems like a dull task to me. Besides, what's the point of being a Goddess if you can't get other people to do stuff like that for you? Sure I will do what I can to improve the lives of my people, but when other people are more than capable of a task in my stead why not have them do it.

This was a novel experience, I've always been the face of our empire, but I've never really acted as it before. Also, I'm apparently pretty good at it? Which is somewhat surprising because I'm not exactly the most social person, to my dad's disappointment I'm sure. But I was raised by Eric Kron, and stories of him charming the pants off of numerous powerful people are still being told today. There are even rumors of him charming true immortals like the first sentient and leader of the scholars, though he hasn't told me that story yet. So maybe a bit of his charisma rubbed off on me? I mean magical talent is partially passed down in the same way, so it is reasonable.

Basically it just means that I might have to replace our main negotiator more often when he is indisposed. Which might be interesting.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.