After his fight with the minotaur, Ralethrok went back to his dormitory room to get some rest because, even if he didn't look it, he was completely drained of all energy, Getting in his room he undressed and lied down on his bed, he still had a few hours before the dubbing ceremony. He fell asleep. Three hours later he was woken by one of the servants who explained to him that the ceremony would be in one hour. The young elf got up and started getting ready. He put on his best clothes and ceremonial armour, cleaned his weapons and scabbards so they would shine then he set out towards the ballroom. Once he got there he saw all of the other students who just passed the final test and were going to become swordmasters just like him. All of the other students' parents were there, Ralethrok looked around for his but as he suspected they were not there. They were probably still up in the northern part of the continent fighting off the dreaded hordes of the beastmen once again. Then a old elf came out of a door in one of the ballroom's sidewalls. That old elf climbed up on to the stage that was at one end of the room, when he did so everybody ranked up in front of that same stage. The old elf started talking in a booming voice that betrayed the fact that he had lived a military life. The old one talked about the fact that the swordmasters were the elite forces of the elven army that they could not only fight with they're ceremonial fullblades but with just about anything that they got they're hands on. The old elf kept on talking about what it meant to be in this elite group. After explaining all this the dubbing ceremony started, the teachers got on to the stage and got into a line. The aprentices to be dubbed were named one by one, they passed in front of the teachers thanking each of them in turn then when they got to the end of the line a brooch was given to them, proof that they were now true swordmasters. the last one to be called to the stage was Ralethrok so he went onto the stage and did the same thing as all the other students but when he got to the end of the line the old elf did not give him his brooch but told him that he had to be talked to in private before he could recieve it.