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<blockquote data-quote="pathfinderq1" data-source="post: 6815888" data-attributes="member: 48394"><p>Mina kept her head bowed for a few moments, while the others spoke- it seemed obvious that she was trying to choose her words with care. When Daedarai reached a stopping point, she spoke up again, her voice once more tinged with emotion...</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: #EE82EE">I will lay out the pieces, and I will leave you, all of you, to decide what type of picture you make of them. To start, I had not met Tro'Leera before we went into the mines, and I had no idea what his project entailed, or how my House was involved. There is much that I have not told of my past, though your Guildmaster knows most of it- and one reason I did not explain before is that, until a few minutes ago, I would have believed that it would be more dangerous for you to have this information, more dangerous both for you and for me. To those in the noble Houses, I am believed to be dead already.</span>"</p><p> </p><p>"<span style="color: #EE82EE">My name is Yasmina, of House Silverfrost. I was the third daughter, and the youngest child of the generation- if you have any knowledge of how the Houses rule this city, that should tell you that I was, for the most part, entirely superfluous, not even needed for an alliance marriage. But my House had not remained in power for so long by wasting resources. By my father's directive I had a number of <em>rather unusual</em> tutors- in time I might have been a valuable spy, or even an assassin, and the basic training in these areas served me well when things... well, more on that later. It seems likely that I was not my father's only secret project- and as he didn't tell them about me, he didn't tell me about <em>them</em>. Unfortunately, my older brother had a bit of excess ambition- he was not the eldest, but he would have had a very privileged position in time- but that was not enough. And to make matters worse, he had friends among some of the other Houses, who stoked the fires of his ambitions, and provided assistance in return for favors in the future. The Bloodrows were one such family- perhaps they knew nothing of how they themselves had been taken, or perhaps they did know, and this was some twisted plot; I don't know if we can ever know how deep those machinations go. Whatever the cause, my brother arranged for a precise series of incidents- my father, my eldest brother the rightful heir, a number of loyal or inconvenient family retainers... In short, a tidy little bloodbath. I might have been spared- as far as he knew I was a flighty ornamental trinket; perhaps I could have been married off to one of his friends. Instead, I fled, for I would have no part of it. One of my tutors, gods rest her soul, taught me the knowledge that let me contact the Guild, and I was able to barter my skills and my knowledge for a position, an apprenticeship if you will.</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: #EE82EE">I would have wanted to bring my brother to justice one way or another- someday; I'm not even sure I would have wanted him dead- just punished. But I had no idea just how far he had gone, just how many things he was up to. From what Tro'leera says, his misdeeds have gone beyond simple ambition and greed- and now I think that death might be too little punishment for my dear brother. The very ideas of what he has been up to sicken me- it is not simply some kind of disease let loose, or the idea of some kind of private army of enhanced soldiers. It is the idea that his plans, and those of the other Houses, are so casual with the lives of those around them, from the highest to the lowest, at every level of this city and this society. And it is not just my brother who must pay- but he stands at the head of the line... Is that enough information for now, or do you have any other specific questions that I might answer?"</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pathfinderq1, post: 6815888, member: 48394"] Mina kept her head bowed for a few moments, while the others spoke- it seemed obvious that she was trying to choose her words with care. When Daedarai reached a stopping point, she spoke up again, her voice once more tinged with emotion... "[COLOR="#EE82EE"]I will lay out the pieces, and I will leave you, all of you, to decide what type of picture you make of them. To start, I had not met Tro'Leera before we went into the mines, and I had no idea what his project entailed, or how my House was involved. There is much that I have not told of my past, though your Guildmaster knows most of it- and one reason I did not explain before is that, until a few minutes ago, I would have believed that it would be more dangerous for you to have this information, more dangerous both for you and for me. To those in the noble Houses, I am believed to be dead already.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="#EE82EE"]My name is Yasmina, of House Silverfrost. I was the third daughter, and the youngest child of the generation- if you have any knowledge of how the Houses rule this city, that should tell you that I was, for the most part, entirely superfluous, not even needed for an alliance marriage. But my House had not remained in power for so long by wasting resources. By my father's directive I had a number of [I]rather unusual[/I] tutors- in time I might have been a valuable spy, or even an assassin, and the basic training in these areas served me well when things... well, more on that later. It seems likely that I was not my father's only secret project- and as he didn't tell them about me, he didn't tell me about [I]them[/I]. Unfortunately, my older brother had a bit of excess ambition- he was not the eldest, but he would have had a very privileged position in time- but that was not enough. And to make matters worse, he had friends among some of the other Houses, who stoked the fires of his ambitions, and provided assistance in return for favors in the future. The Bloodrows were one such family- perhaps they knew nothing of how they themselves had been taken, or perhaps they did know, and this was some twisted plot; I don't know if we can ever know how deep those machinations go. Whatever the cause, my brother arranged for a precise series of incidents- my father, my eldest brother the rightful heir, a number of loyal or inconvenient family retainers... In short, a tidy little bloodbath. I might have been spared- as far as he knew I was a flighty ornamental trinket; perhaps I could have been married off to one of his friends. Instead, I fled, for I would have no part of it. One of my tutors, gods rest her soul, taught me the knowledge that let me contact the Guild, and I was able to barter my skills and my knowledge for a position, an apprenticeship if you will.[/COLOR]" "[COLOR="#EE82EE"]I would have wanted to bring my brother to justice one way or another- someday; I'm not even sure I would have wanted him dead- just punished. But I had no idea just how far he had gone, just how many things he was up to. From what Tro'leera says, his misdeeds have gone beyond simple ambition and greed- and now I think that death might be too little punishment for my dear brother. The very ideas of what he has been up to sicken me- it is not simply some kind of disease let loose, or the idea of some kind of private army of enhanced soldiers. It is the idea that his plans, and those of the other Houses, are so casual with the lives of those around them, from the highest to the lowest, at every level of this city and this society. And it is not just my brother who must pay- but he stands at the head of the line... Is that enough information for now, or do you have any other specific questions that I might answer?"[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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