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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6092580" data-attributes="member: 55680">No More TearsAdditional information about Hex 16.16 When Princess Elandra, the heir to the Duchy of Thring, was born the Green Lady gave her a gift: she cries nothing but gems. When she skinned her knee she cried quartz, when her sister died she cried topaz and when her father screamed at her that he’d skin her new kitten if she stopped crying because he needed more gems to fund the ongoing repairs of Castle Tarengael she wept fat rubies. Princess Elandra has heard every tragedy from Thring to the ends of the earth and while once she cried when breakfast was much past due, or when brooks went dry, or brandyfruit were overripe or when the sheep got something in their eye, now she weeps no more. She’s heard of lovers lost to the Courting Death (32.12) and princesses fed to geese and even saw the death of her youngest niece, but she has no more tears. So her father, the Duke of Thring, has decreed that when each day passes and the night closes in suitors may approach and tell her tales of woe and bitter sadness in hopes that they will be able to make her cry again. Her father has promised that whoever is able to make her cry will marry poor Elandra and be the next Duke of the Thring provided that, of course, he let him have enough gems to hire a mercenary army to drive the Lords Sanguine from Gore once and for all. Hooks:-Wait a second, Princess Elandra is the daughter of a Duke not a King, why’s she a princess?-Why did the Green Lady hand out that gift? Does she usually give those kind of gifts?-Is there anyone in all of these lands who’s a worse father than the Duke of Thring?-What did the Duke spend all of the gems on besides tower repair?-What’s brandyfruit?-Who’s flocking to Castle Tarengael to tell tear-jerking stories?</blockquote>

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