"I'll ask where the enchanting lab is, then."

"Do you need anything else?"

Hum.

"Aesthetic guidance, perhaps, and perhaps opinions on how things are communicated."

"I think I can help with that."

"Excellent. And we can leave these two to their plotting."

"Play to our respective strengths."

"Delegate wisely."

"We'll leave you two to it, then," she says to Lilou and Berengere.

"We'll handle everything here."

Then off to find the enchanting lab.

"They actually have a pretty good quality lab here..." she comments. "Strange, since they don't seem to use enchanted armor and weapons much - maybe I can upgrade them a little while I'm here."

"Perhaps there is a reason they do not- Though it may be as simple as that they have not employed such a specialist in some time."

"Could be cost, or the difficulty of making uniform enchantments... Or whatever they're doing to make their armor so - well. Kinky."

" - There, the base design of the armor affects what you can do with it. I'd struggle to put Morrowind-style enchantments on Cyrodilic armor, and the Blades armor might not take enchantments well."

"I wonder which emperor was the one to decide that was an acceptable tradeoff..."

"The late Emperor had plenty of time to change it if he objected..."

"It now has the weight of tradition behind it."

"You could change it piecemeal. Keep the 'everyone subs for the Empress' aesthetic - that's very fair - and ratchet back the modesty. Or just break with tradition openly on your coronation."

"I'll have to give it some thought."

"And I can provide enchanted jewelry for your Blades, either way."

"...How much jewelry could you do?"

"An entire Morrowind-style loadout."

"That would almost be enough to need no armor at all."

"Bet you I can get it to act like base armor."

"That would do nicely to put my own stamp on the office."

"Signal that you'll be doing things a little differently."