I'm once again in need of gems - Earth gems, this time (it seems offering to trade them away was rather premature). I can still trade Water, Death and Astral gems, as well as small numbers of Fire gems.
I'm also willing to forge items in any path except for Death or Blood. Just the required gems for anything requiring up to 2 levels in the magic path, and a 20% markup for anything requiring above that (if I can forge it), so e.g. a Bane Venom Charm would be 10 Death gems, a Heart Finder Sword would be 18 Blood Slaves, and the Black Book of Secrets would be 10 Death gems and 10 blood slaves. I may be willing to accept other gem types than whatever is necessary for the forged item. Offers (both for gem and item trades) by PM.
Also, why would you need anything but infinite Maenad swarms, Knave? Sure, Ermor has more troops than you do, but they're chaff all the same, and Mass Protection + Weapons of Sharpness + Strength of Giants is not bad at all.
Not to mention you can use stealth armies, which MA Ermor can't do, and that's not even getting into why you would want more priests when you don't appear to be at war with Ermor.