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<blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 5911295" data-attributes="member: 83822"><p>The appendices are updated. I've created a couple of new categories: Vegetation and Organisations. So far, each has one entry (razorgrass and the Company of the Silver Flame), so remind me of vegetation and organisations we've already established!</p><p></p><p>And now, an entry to resolve another conflict: whether Lady Natala nursed the prince or the duke:</p><p></p><p><strong>The Lady-in-Waiting of Castle Maratan</strong> (expanding 07.17)</p><p>A Sanguine Lady would not be worthy of the title if she was not intimately concerned with the workings of blood. It should come as no surprise that Lady Natala keeps a gilded cage of stirges, and has her plump and otherwise content servants press their veins to the bars after dinner each night.</p><p></p><p>It is these stirges that may explain a curious discrepancy. All agree that after one particularly frustrating hunt for the tarrasque, the Duke fell to beating his princely jester. But the Duke did not escape unharmed—a wound of unknown origin across the back of his hand festered, and he collapsed alongside his jester near Castle Maratan. Some say that it is the prince who Lady Natala nursed to health, for she learned what only he surely knows: a sporting ground of the tarrasque. But others say that it was the Duke, for she claims to have birthed his child. </p><p></p><p>The sobbed accusations of a former lady-in-waiting, now confined to her quarters for ‘treatment’, may explain the mystery. According to the lady-in-waiting, she was assigned the task of nursing the prince to health, and with him she formed a deep, romantic bond. In thanks for her kindness, he whispered to her a place where the tarrasque sported freely and often, and where she could sit and watch that curious beast.</p><p></p><p>Word of this passed to Lady Natala, who became obsessed with harvesting the tarrasque’s heartsblood. She demanded that the lady-in-waiting give up the location. Lips sealed by love, the woman kept her confidence. </p><p></p><p>Natala had a stirge brought to her quarters. It drew blood from the lady-in-waiting and delivered it into the Sanguine Lady’s eager vein. Certainly, knowledge of the sporting ground of the tarrasque passed to the Lady, for a week later she battled that beast. </p><p></p><p>But when the son that Lady Natala bore grew his first head of copper hair—so unlike the hair of both the Sanguine and the Duke—the lady-in-waiting drew a horrible conclusion. The stirge had drawn not just a memory from her mind, but also a baby from her belly. The son of Natala is not heir of Thring; he is heir of all Gore.</p><p></p><p>Or so the mad lady-in-waiting believes.</p><p></p><p><em>Hooks</em></p><p>What effect has frequent blood-letting and blood-mingling had on the servants?</p><p>Is the son really of the jester prince? What would the prince think if he heard of it?</p><p>Copper hair again. Is there a connection between all these copperheads?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sanglorian, post: 5911295, member: 83822"] The appendices are updated. I've created a couple of new categories: Vegetation and Organisations. So far, each has one entry (razorgrass and the Company of the Silver Flame), so remind me of vegetation and organisations we've already established! And now, an entry to resolve another conflict: whether Lady Natala nursed the prince or the duke: [B]The Lady-in-Waiting of Castle Maratan[/B] (expanding 07.17) A Sanguine Lady would not be worthy of the title if she was not intimately concerned with the workings of blood. It should come as no surprise that Lady Natala keeps a gilded cage of stirges, and has her plump and otherwise content servants press their veins to the bars after dinner each night. It is these stirges that may explain a curious discrepancy. All agree that after one particularly frustrating hunt for the tarrasque, the Duke fell to beating his princely jester. But the Duke did not escape unharmed—a wound of unknown origin across the back of his hand festered, and he collapsed alongside his jester near Castle Maratan. Some say that it is the prince who Lady Natala nursed to health, for she learned what only he surely knows: a sporting ground of the tarrasque. But others say that it was the Duke, for she claims to have birthed his child. The sobbed accusations of a former lady-in-waiting, now confined to her quarters for ‘treatment’, may explain the mystery. According to the lady-in-waiting, she was assigned the task of nursing the prince to health, and with him she formed a deep, romantic bond. In thanks for her kindness, he whispered to her a place where the tarrasque sported freely and often, and where she could sit and watch that curious beast. Word of this passed to Lady Natala, who became obsessed with harvesting the tarrasque’s heartsblood. She demanded that the lady-in-waiting give up the location. Lips sealed by love, the woman kept her confidence. Natala had a stirge brought to her quarters. It drew blood from the lady-in-waiting and delivered it into the Sanguine Lady’s eager vein. Certainly, knowledge of the sporting ground of the tarrasque passed to the Lady, for a week later she battled that beast. But when the son that Lady Natala bore grew his first head of copper hair—so unlike the hair of both the Sanguine and the Duke—the lady-in-waiting drew a horrible conclusion. The stirge had drawn not just a memory from her mind, but also a baby from her belly. The son of Natala is not heir of Thring; he is heir of all Gore. Or so the mad lady-in-waiting believes. [I]Hooks[/I] What effect has frequent blood-letting and blood-mingling had on the servants? Is the son really of the jester prince? What would the prince think if he heard of it? Copper hair again. Is there a connection between all these copperheads? [/QUOTE]
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