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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3571012" data-attributes="member: 3448">After discussing the scouting mission with Stythus, Dame Brionna went to attend to a meeting that had fallen by the wayside up to this point.  For several days, Grand Dame Sophia of the Order of the Pure Azure Flame had sought an audience with members of the Archduke’s inner circle, but the meeting had not been scheduled because of more pressing matters.  The Orders of Flames were powerful, but not on a level with major realms.  Grand Dame Sophia had perhaps the same level of influence as the head of a major merchant house.  Additionally, each of the Orders was dedicated to a single religion, and the Order of the Pure Azure Flame was Paranswarmian.  While her request was still sufficient to arrange a meeting, it did not need to be handled as expeditiously as a request from the Grand Dame of the Order of the Pure White Flame, the Glor’diadelian order, would have been.Grand Dame Sophia rose as Dame Brionna entered the audience chamber.  The Grand Dame was a striking woman-- not young by any stretch, but extraordinarily expert in the use of at least cosmetics and likely also magics that both concealed and staved off aging.  She was dressed in formal robes, in a perfect azure of course, with an unusual heraldic badge of sorts on her chest.  She bowed politely to Dame Brionna.  “Thank you for accepting my petition for a meeting.”“I am sorry that we did not join you sooner, but his grace has survived thirty-three assassination attempts in the recent weeks.  We had been rather preoccupied dealing with those.”“Indeed.  I would not have wished to draw your attention away from such matters.   Nonetheless, my Order has important information of which we wish the Archduke apprised.”  Grand Dame Sophia paused for a moment to choose her words with care.  “We would see stability in this realm, because this realm stabilizes the entire South.  I first approached my counterpart in the Order of the Pure White Flame with the information I bring, but religion and ideological differences intervened.  The Grand Dame of that Order would not believe that I spoke truth--she thought I sought to slander her Order and create additional difficulties.“The vast majority of your enemies have been dealt with, or will be drawn into confrontations inevitably that will be won, according to my divinations.  But there is another figure that stands behind, a master of deceptions, a master of lies.  Victory against him is not inevitable.”Dame Brionna responded to a rap upon the door, opening the door a crack.  “With your permission, Grand Dame, I would ask that you allow Dame Katherine of Lyneham to join us.”“I would be most pleased to make her acquaintance as well.”Kit walked in.  She was a little surprised that the Grand Dame stood and bowed at her entrance, but she was getting more used to such things.  She returned the bow, somewhat more awkwardly, and gestured for Grand Dame Sophia to sit again as she slipped into her own chair.The Grand Dame smiled.  “I am pleased to see that the Archduchy has taken my request so seriously that you have arranged a meeting with the two most powerful women in the Archduchy.”Kit startled at that description.  For a moment she thought that it was intended as mockery, but then realized that it was serious.  What was even harder to deal with was the realization that it might be true.  She swallowed and responded, “Given the urgency of your messages, we thought that it was only fitting to meet with you personally.”</blockquote>

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