Pokey Stick Ex is a rough name. Good thing the spirit liked it.
Since everyone can see Pokey Stick Ex, it seems to me that some might realise it is a king's bow. I hope it can hide itself.
Still, kings usually make an oath regarding their ideals to obtain the bough, but his "oath" is something incredibly easy to maintain, so he really has the ultimate king's bough which can provide all of the advantages of one (in terms of birthing and gathering spirits and generating fae's boughs) while being essentially impossible to lose by breaking the oath.
It must be rough for Note to have his views on kingly oaths shattered in this way.
It's interesting that if anyone knows how the forest trials work the forest won't appear to them. That means even if someone figures it out they are encouraged to not tell it to others because if everyone knew no one would be able to acquire one.
I'm not sure that everyone would be encouraged to keep it a secret; someone with a king's bough who wishes to prevent others from ever obtaining one themselves might very well decide that it would be in their interest to spread the knowledge of how to overcome the trial.
It’s been looming in the back for quite some time, but I REALLY want to know what is going on with his sister...
We've seen a bit and it's not interesting; she just dumps hard work on others while pretending that it comes from greater morals. The longer the MC gets to avoid her, the better. And if he does encounter her, I hope he quickly wraps up the trouble she, and the others, represent.