title: Elven Silver: The Irreverent Faery Tales of Zardoa Silverstar
author:  The Silver Elves 
description: The Silver Elves are a family of elves who have been living and sharing the Elven Way since 1975. The Elven Way is the spiritual Path of the Elves. It is not a religion. While all elves are free to pursue whatever spiritual path they desire, or not as the case may be, these elves are magicians and follow no particular religious dogma. We do however believe in all the Gods and Goddesses, (also Santa Claus [to whom were related], the tooth fairy [distant cousins] and the Easter or Ostara Bunny [no relation].) and try to treat them all with due respect. The Elven Way promotes the principles of Fairness, that is to say both Justice, Elegance and Equal Opportunity and Courtesy that is respectful in its interactions and attitude toward all beings, great or small. They are the authors of: The Book of Elven Runes: A Passage Into Faerie; The Magical Elven Love Letters, volume 1, 2, and 3; An Elfin Book of Spirits: Evoking the Beneficent Powers of Faerie; Caressed by an Elfin Breeze: The Poems of Zardoa Silverstar; Eldafaryn: True Tales of Magic from the Lives of the Silver Elves; Arvyndase (Silverspeech): A Short Course in the Magical Language of the Silver Elves; The Elven Book of Dreams: A Magical Oracle of Faerie; The Book of Elven Magick: The Philosophy and Enchantments of the Seelie Elves, Volume 1 &amp; 2; What An Elf Would Do: A Magical Guide to the Manners and Etiquette of the Faerie Folk; The Elven Tree of Life Eternal: A Magical Quest for Ones True SElf; Magic Talks: On Being a Correspondence Between the Silver Elves and the Elf Queens Daughters; Sorcerers Dialogues: A Further Correspondence Between the Silver Elves and the Founders of the Elf Queens Daughters; Discourses on High Sorcery: More Correspondence Between the Silver Elves and the Founders of the Elf Queens Daughters; Ruminations on Necromancy: Continuing Correspondence Between the Silver Elves and the Founders of the Elf Queens Daughter; The Elven Way: The Magical Path of the Shining Ones; and The Book of Elf Names: 5,600 Elven Names to use for Magic, Game Playing, Inspiration, Naming Ones self and Ones Child, and as words in the Elven Language of the Silver Elves. The Silver Elves understand the world as a magical or miraculous phenomena, and that all beings, by pursuing their own true path, will become whomever they truly desire to be. You are welcome to visit their website at http://silverelves@live.com and join them on Facebook with name as Zardoa Silver Elves Love.
zlib_text: Prologue
   The Eldidd Border
  1096
   “AS THRIFTY AS a dwarf” is a common catchphrase, and one that the Mountain People take for a
  compliment. Although they see no reason to waste anything, whether it’s a scrap of cloth or the heel of a
  loaf, they keep a particularly good watch over their gemstones and metals, though they never tell anyone
  outside their kin and clan just how they do it. Otho, the silver daggers’ smith down in Dun Mannannan,
  was no different than any other dwarven craftsman, unless he was perhaps more cautious than most. His
  usual customer was some hotheaded young lad who’d dishonored himself badly enough to be forced to
  join the silver daggers, and you have to admit that a wandering swordsman who fights only for coin, not
  honor, isn’t the sort you can truly trust with either dwarven silver or magical secrets.
   During his long years among humans in the kingdom of Deverry, Otho taught a few other smiths how to
  smelt the rare alloy for the daggers, an extremely complicated pr