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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6099150" data-attributes="member: 55680">The Keep of DreanachHex 15.11 What! No carnivorous apes! Must do something about that… Pedantic redundant reminder: lordship in Thring generally goes from father to son in-law, not father to son. There are exceptions, but not here… Lady Anghart was raised as the heiress of this rundown keep in the backwaters of Thring. In her childhood she had no eyes for the rotten wood and the mildewed tapestries of her home but only ears for the stories of the great men who had claimed the hand of her foremothers: bloody-handed villains, shining heroes, quick-witted peasants and even a renegade member of the Necromantic Office who somehow managed to sire an heiress. She swore that her husband would be her match in the saddle and at the board of a hundred worries and know all of her hidden desires without speaking a word. Her father had other ideas. The werebears of Lochgate (13.10) were ever a nuisance with their demands that he send his peasants to build and rebuild their lodge each year and her father promised her hand to any warrior who prove himself able to defend the Keep of Dreanach against them. And so came Grimvlech the Smiler, down from some mist-soaked hamlet in the Grey Mountains, who brought down a great bear with nothing but his silver teeth. But however great a fighter he was Grimvlech could barely stay in a saddle, even when sober, did not know the laws of the hundred worries and cared nothing for Anghart’s desires. So, without ever renouncing her inheritance, Anghart disappeared and her far more tractable sister wed the Smiler. It was not long before Anghart’s father died and Grimvlech ruled Dreanach until one stormy night Anghart reappeared with a band of strange companions, stormed the keep and fed her brother in-law to a pair of carnivorous apes she had acquired from somewhere in the utter south. They are not all she has brought with her, she also has a strange staff studded with yellowed human teeth and bound with strange enchantments and a large supply of sex change potions that she had stolen from Isane the Beauty (19.31). Thanks to those potions there is now a man worthy of Anghart: a tall blunt-faced Thringman with a hair style suspiciously-similar to her own. While doing her best to keep up the illusion that she has found herself a lover, Anghart has announced wedding plans and hopes to rule as Lord and Lady of Dreanach. Her sister is not pleased with this, but there is little that she can do her in tower cell. Connection:- Grimvlech the Smiler’s original teeth were lost in the Cornfields (03.30). Hooks:-Who or what is “Dreanach?”-How could a member of the Necromantic Office father a child? Aren’t they all eunuchs? Do I want to know?-For that matter is Anghart planning on having a child with her “husband?” Is that even possible?-Any other interesting former lords of Dreanach?-What is the board of a hundred worries? Some kind of board game?-Where did Anghard get carnivorous apes and her tooth-staff? Who are her companions? What adventures did she have in the south?-How is she planning to keep people from figuring out that she’s marrying herself? What are Thringish wedding customs like anyway?-How have the Lochgates reacted to all of this?-It probably wasn’t wise to steal from Isane the Beauty, was it?-As long as Anghart was gone for more than a year and a day, what she did was illegal (see the laws of Thring). Is anyone in a position to do anything about that without getting fed to her apes?</blockquote>

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