He's been telling his story for SEVEN YEARS? Move over, Scheherazade, we got a new storyteller in the house.
Also, I absolutely love that, while the hermits are still individually way more powerful than him, he's still the only one who can just chill with a True Dragon without even worrying about it. It's a good way to justify why him being a high elf is so important beyond living a couple centuries more than regular elves.