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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3316421" data-attributes="member: 3448">Yeah.  Part of me is very, very afraid that someday she's going to ask for a boon.  Because Alistair won't be able to say no to anything halfway reasonable, but...  We'll see. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />----They thanked her and returned to the throneroom.  Sure enough, the password opened a small door to an alcove holding a thin stack of parchment.  All told, there were about a half-dozen documents, although some were multiple pages.  Most of the documents were flattened out dispatches, but there was also the message from Haven and the order of battle of some country.  Kit handed all of the documents to Dame Brionna, who focused on the order of battle.“It’s the armies of Debeney.  Debeney is the country next to Augurt-- the Archbaron’s wife is Debenean.  There are also orange or yellow wolfs’ heads marked next to four of the units-- that’s the sign of the wild, a mark sometimes used to indicate units that might be disloyal.  I’m not sure what this mark at the top of the sheet means, though.”“That one I recognize,” said Kit.  “It’s a mouth icon.  This was from the Mouth.”“Ah.  That makes sense.  The most interesting thing about this, though, is which units are disloyal.  All four are heavy cavalry, which are usually among the most reliable troops.  But none of the artillery or infantry units are marked.  It may be a divide between the monarch and the nobility-- the heavy cavalry in a land like Debeney would consist exclusively of the children of the nobles.”Dame Brionna carefully returned the document to its compartment and looked at the missive from Haven.  Lord Brendan Brightspan wrote a two page report to Archduchess Amelia, with “For Her Grace’s Eyes Only!” written across the top.  Even from just the written form, they could tell that he was excited, nervous, and eager to handle the conspiracy that he had uncovered.  He reported that the agents that the Mouth has in Haven had been corrupted.  In response, Lord Brendan had gathered his own agents, to watch the enemies of Canberry and to keep an eye on the agents of the Mouth.  He also wrote extensively of the rats in the city-- clearly unaware of the full significance of this, but able to see enough to know that it needed reporting.  He also recommended that the prior ambassador be arrested.  Dame Brionna checked some records, and found that the prior ambassador had served for forty years, but was now being held in the Archduchy’s dungeon.[My notes at this point say “Grand Dame Sophia, Adept General of the Order of the Azure Flame (most powerful of the Paranswarmian arcane orders)”;  I assume that this is listing another guest who is arriving for the coronation, but it could be saying that she had also been corrupted, or something else entirely.  I’m trying to get clarification.]</blockquote>

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