In my previous entry I mentioned skysteel.  Perhaps you are, oh king, already aware of it, but since I believe that none of your own ancestral weapons weapons are forged of it (if I remember the latest intelligence our people have on your own kingdom), it may be worth a few lines to explain it.

Skysteel is so named because the ore from which it is forged falls, not surprisingly, from the sky in a blazing ball of fire.  I believe that the astronomers still argue about where it actually comes from–are they pieces of another world or simply fragments from rock from the Void left over from creation?  In any case, much of the stone in which the metal is encased is burned up by the fireball, leaving blobs of black and grayish metal.  I don’t know if it is the high temperatures in the fireball or if the metal is something else entirely, but weapons created from skysteel are unique.  They are far stronger and lighter than regular steel and, according to my sources, can take on much more of an enchantment.

Skysteel weapons are so rare because skysteel is so rare.  It is unusual to find more than a few pebbles at a time, and a handful can take years of travel to assemble.  The starsisters, though, seem the be able to now harvest it almost at will.  I don’t know if their mother, Hai’Lyn, sends it to them or if they have some way of attracting it, but since I have begun traveling under the Twilight (this trip started a fortnight ago) I have seen regular fireballs streaking across the stars, sometimes at a rate of several an hour.  From my window, I have seen two pass by in the distance since I sat down to pen this entry.

Always, their direction is the same:  I reckon them to be heading towards Anhilarya’s City of Hammerforge.  It should take no great amount of imagination to divine to what use she will put it–I fear that your armies will face the results of her labors someday.