Gren raised his hands in the universal gesture of peace.
"I thank you for your words, honoured gods, but let them go. I know not the full extent of your division, Volondor and Corvus, but it only serves to cause difficulty. I ask you, for this council at least, to put those differences behind you. There are threats to all, divine and mortal alike, greater than our disagreements. It is with such a threat in mind that I sue for peace, an abomination among the stars that I have sworn to end, but such greater threats cannot be faced while war still looms among us."
Gren turned to the fire giant ambassadors.
"Honoured Eldtursar, your terms have been heard. Corvus freely acknowledges and will make reparations to you and your kind, in the hope that this rift between you may be healed. I pray you accept this offering and let this be an end to your feud."
Gren turned to the projection of Udil-Volondor.
"Volondor, your acknowledgement of Vanida's unwarranted vendetta is heartening to us, but the divides here are deep and without time and patience there is little chance of the children of Thaneos ever willingly accepting your claimed stewardship of this world. A sign is required for there to be healing, one equal in term to Vanida's act against us.
"I had not thought it possible to raise the dead until dwarves were reborn after the fires struck the world. I would not have thought it possible to revive gods, save that a deity long thought slain stands before us now to prove his life. You yourself claim the power to resurrect your own kind, Volondor.
"You say that Thaneos was an ally to you, that you fought by his side against Az-Sho in the battle that scorched the lands of the Eldtursar. Surely then you would have no objection to his return, if you thought it possible."
Gren addressed the image of Kar'lan.
"I defer to your wisdom in this matter, esteemed Kar'lan, for I know only this side of Death. Surely some part of Thaneos lives on in his children, in his Halls. It may not be within the power of the gods to raise him fully as once he was, for surely even Aldemas was not returned hale and whole after long centuries gone, but might it be possible to return his spirit to at least the body of a giant - immortal and able to lead and teach his children, even if his full power might not be returned?"
Gren turned to the Council of Three.
"Thaneos was powerful, so great that he slew the Creator himself. If the lesser gods of today can return but a part of him, even that will be mighty by comparison. He would need his children to care for him as he regained his strength. If the resurrection of such a great being is beyond their power, I beg you to consider another sign in its place.
"Yet I say again that Thaneos called for his Halls to be a place of meeting and neutrality for all. If the intercession of the gods in any way in Eversummer cannot be, I call for you to respect his wishes in this. Let the Halls themselves, or a wing or part of them, be opened to the gods and other spirits of power as an embassy, a neutral ground for them to meet without fear of one another - and for mortals to do the same. The gods offer their concessions, but we must all make sacrifices for peace. Sacrifices still far less than those we would make for war. Let the gods take no part in Eversummer, but let us realise the Father's dream."
Gren finally made to address all parties.
"The wounds here are great, but not beyond healing. The gods have shown willingness to bend for peace, I ask that we mortals do the same. I ask that we reconcile our differences, not merely for peace but because there is a far greater threat against which we must stand united.
"Three centuries before, Feros came to me to tell of a horror, an abomination beyond the stars. A creature that devoured gods as hawks do sparrows. A creature immune to the powers of the divine, but which might be slain through mortal agency. The creature was trapped, I know not how, but I know he still lives. He has lived for three centuries now, sealed away, and each night he whispers in dreams, calling to be freed. Some of you may have heard these whispers in your sleep, some tormented by his nightmares. I fear that he grows in power, and whatever trap the gods lured him into will not hold.
"It is tempting, in light of all that has happened, to think 'Let the gods suffer, let this beast tear through them as a wolf through sheep.' It is tempting to think 'it is no more than they deserve'. I make no judgement on this. What I say in this; when the gods, powerless against this beast, approached me first they felt mortals stood a chance against this creature. Then, that was true. But fattened by the bloated corpses of the divine, can we deceive ourselves that we would stand a chance against it? Such an entity would reave all, mortal and divine alike. Its reckoning would see an end to all Creation.
"I call for peace that we might war, not against each other, but to put down this threat once and for all. Then we might rebuild our work untroubled, then we might stand a chance of harmony at last."