Today is my 16th birthday. I was expecting a surprise party, what I wasn’t expecting was a surprise. All at once two tables appeared out of nowhere, one with a large cake on it, the other with wrapped presents. Latter Mest explained that he used an extra-dimensional bag and a bit of short-range teleportation to pull it off.

The cake was really good. It was spicy and sweet in a way that didn’t clash, and the frosting gave me a slight buzz of mana. It was bought off of a professional chef from the city that Par had his Hobgoblins pick up.

As for gifts, I’ll go by who gave me what.

Tiddol got me a type of plant known as Singing Grass, it has a tendency to vibrate in tune with other blades of Singing Grass, creating a beautiful singing sound. I am looking forward to playing around with that.

Mest gave me a gemstone known as Demon Glass, something a cousin of his made with his racial abilities after evolving. It has a dark reddish color and the way the light reflects off of it give it the appearance that it’s pulsing, like a beating heart. It is also a very potent gemstone, able to store almost my entire mana pool before overfilling. Mest said that the really high-end stuff is even able to grow using the mana inside as fuel, unfortunately, this is low in terms of quality. If this is the low-end stuff, i don't think i would ever be able to fill the high end stuff. I am looking forward to making a necklace like the one I made for Willow out of it.

Lord Parius The Magnificent got me a crown. It was made of woven branches and cheap gemstones, some things his tribe pulled up from a dungeon dive he said. The gemstones all together are about half the storage of the Demon Glass, but I feel like I can improve it in a couple ways, something Par encouraged me to do.

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Thes got me a knife, more a dagger really, and a sheath. It was well made and simple in design and enchanted. I learned later that the knife was enchanted for durability and sharpness, while the sheath was enchanted for maintenance purposes. It’s a nice knife, better than anything I can make, but I hope it doesn’t see much use.

Willow got me a book. It detailed healing of all forms, something i’m definitely going to have to read over a couple days from now.

The Ents and Whisperer worked together to get me a potion. They encouraged me to drink it all right away, which I did after they explained what it does. It was thick and sickeningly sweet. After drinking it I felt an amazing amount of control over mana, both the mana inside me and the ambient mana, which is really surprising considering the fact the usually I can’t control ambient mana at all. That faded over the next hour or so, but not completely. It wasn’t until afterward that they told me that it was made from the Ent’s sap, their blood, after it was refined down quite a bit by Whisperer. That left me conflicted, on one hand, I was happy they were willing to go to such lengths for me, on the other hand, I didn’t want them getting needlessly hurt, even for my sake. I was going to punish Whisperer for making them do it, but it seems the Ents came up with the idea on their own.

Talus didn’t get me anything, which isn’t surprising considering the fact that she only showed up five days ago and didn’t even know it was my birthday until last night. She promised she would get me something soon though.

We played that board game from a couple days ago again today, this time Par went straight for Mest right at the beginning, taking him out quickly. He was situated to win until the Ents teamed up to take him out, after that it was no contest and they took 1st and 2nd.

Overall it was a great day, something I’ll remember for a long time.

I didn’t get much time to work on The armor, but I did get a little bit done, I should be finished tomorrow.

Anyway, Good NIght Diary.