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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3062832" data-attributes="member: 29014">"Oh, the situation?  It's a bit complicated," Kastor explains, "Basically, you need to understand that the only people who want to even be near Helena are various suitors who want her as a wife, considering the many advantages of having her as a symbol of the angels' favour, as a sex toy, and as the mother of their daughters.  Various dignitaries from every kingdom on Tymadeau and some that are not, even the King of Rowain, who could crush us militarily if he wanted, have made offers for Helena's hand.  Now, you do have to realise that Helena has an effect on everyone, and that includes mother and father.  They don't want to see her mistreated, and some of the most powerful suitors are also the ones most likely to do so.  What's more, actually marrying her off to one of them will anger all of the others--she's weaved her involuntary spell on enough of them that they might consider going to war to retrieve her from her proper husband, particularly were he not among the most powerful, not to mention diplomatically isolating us from them.  On the flip side, by making overtures and hinting that he is strongly considering them specifically for Helena's hand, father has been able to bring our little kingdom to a new height of diplomatic importance and alliances.  Nobody on all of Tymadeau dares make war with us.  Even when the visiting king of Iragon was overcome by Helena and lost his wits and abducted her, and then Kastor and I chased after him, beat him and his guards up, and took her back, he didn't retaliate, instead publically apologising.  Do you follow so far?" Kastor asks, "So how does it tie in to this wedding?  Well, there's a law that Rowain originated long ago and all kingdoms on Tymadeau technically have that indicates that daughters must be married in order, eldest to youngest.  Now, almost nobody follows this law, but they all must respect anyone who actually does so, and so father has proclaimed that our kingdom still follows it, and thus Lynestra must be wed before Helena.  Never mind the very slight amount of time that Lynestra is actually older.  Well, anyway, the suitors had to accept that.  However, they kept making offers to marry Lynestra to relatives to get rid of her and free up Helena for themselves.  Father rejected this on the grounds that he couldn't marry his eldest daughter to someone of such significantly lesser status than his younger.  And so they began clamouring for him to find a prince for Lynestra--none of them would take her.  When he heard about this crazy journey tradition on the Lyradar Sphere, and when Ammon and Lynestra hit it off fairly well--say what you want about father, but he is much more compassionate for both of his daughters than most, as most wouldn't care if she would be happy--he sent her over here to keep her away from nobles in the intervening time, and then announced her engagement to Ammon.  Of course, soon later, Ammon had to leave, as tradition demanded he could not marry until he completed his journey-thingy.  And the journey lasted years, neatly delaying marrying off Helena.  But now...well, there's no putting off the marriage any longer, I'm afraid.  This wedding is going to have some of the most powerful nobles ever seen in the Lyradar Sphere, and I'm afraid many of them have come to make sure it is done and start after Helena, rather than to wish the new couple well.  So you see, for father and for me, this wedding is an unfortunate occurance as well.  At least, that's my analysis--I was never told this directly."*Kastor laughs.*"Boy, that was a mouthful!  Let's talk about something lighter--yep, I'm the heir apparent of Lacadia.  What do you guys do if you don't inherit from your folks, then?"</blockquote>

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