OOC Kingdom of Ashes VI (Welcome to the Springer Dimension)

[Archon]

a newborn

Typing when you were typing too it seems, so some of my last post is out dated

um..... Is AA planning on letting his sister look after the child while he is in the middle of the battle? Is the newborn coming back to Caer Albion? Has he thought of how to explain the child? Does he plan on just surprising us all with the how and whys when it happens?

Archon still thinks it's better for the child if she is raised along side her brother. But apparently the Kingdom comes first and the child gets to make a sacrifice before she is even old enough to decide such things for herself.
For the good of the kingdom the children will be seperated. Archon's daughter will be raised in Sylvanus by Archon and Xath when they can and by Ara and Lord Stormwind (Archon wants to grant him some sor of lordship) when they can't.
As far as an explination goes.... i'm open for suggestions.

 

[Laurel]

Archon still thinks it's better for the child if she is raised along side her brother. But apparently the Kingdom comes first and the child gets to make a sacrifice before she is even old enough to decide such things for herself.
For the good of the kingdom the children will be seperated. Archon's daughter will be raised in Sylvanus by Archon and Xath when they can and by Ara and Lord Stormwind (Archon wants to grant him some sor of lordship) when they can't.
As far as an explination goes.... i'm open for suggestions.

Hey it is the perfect begining to her understudying her da's broodiness Just kidding.
With one parent, AA, and a step-mom who will love her as Xath will, she will have in some respects a better life then her brother.

Anyways... suggestions...
There's always the fake woman and she died story.
Story: There was a female in Caer Albion, that AA knew while on tour, but she died in the attack. Child was hidden due to its strange mark in the city, and given over to AA when he came to the city after the attack.
Action: When child is born AA's sister takes the child directly to Sylvanus until Car Albion battle is ended. Then public showing of AA's kid with AA and Xath. Jaine can be present, but not the son.

Another- Xath was pregnant the whole time. She just used magic to keep it underwraps, so no one could directly target the child. Archonus was really taking the babies pain the whole time. It may look all human, but it just takes after dad more that's all. And if it ends up with that high CHA for personality who knows it may be the prefect bard in training in a few years- thus taking after mommy Xath.

Another- It is his child, and the biological mother is no more. AA gives silence if anything else is asked. Xath is called mom. People may question, but no matter what gets said they may question and imagine things. This also keeps open an easy way to slide the kid in if something should happen to the brother.

By the way, these are just the rumages of what came to mind first. Both can get trickey and both may be too complex, but hey you asked for suggestions

 

[The_Universe]

Archon still thinks it's better for the child if she is raised along side her brother. But apparently the Kingdom comes first and the child gets to make a sacrifice before she is even old enough to decide such things for herself.
For the good of the kingdom the children will be seperated. Archon's daughter will be raised in Sylvanus by Archon and Xath when they can and by Ara and Lord Stormwind (Archon wants to grant him some sor of lordship) when they can't.
As far as an explination goes.... i'm open for suggestions.

And kids should be able to pick their own names, too!

If you really think it's better to have her raised with her brother, refuse to take her - that will pretty much guarantee that state. But remember that her current planned status is very much a result of demands made by Archon earlier in the game.

Ara, though loyal, is not a terribly powerful protector - nor is Aeron Stormwind. The child might be safe in Sylvanus, but may not be, as well. The queen acquiesced to the original request based on the assumption that the backup heir would be as safe as any living being as long as the Circle of the Phoenix protected her - the real heir has the Queen's guard and the rest of the Queen's inner circle to protect him.

 

[The_Universe]

Hey it is the perfect begining to her understudying her da's broodiness Just kidding.
With one parent, AA, and a step-mom who will love her as Xath will, she will have in some respects a better life then her brother.

Anyways... suggestions...
There's always the fake woman and she died story.
Story: There was a female in Caer Albion, that AA knew while on tour, but she died in the attack. Child was hidden due to its strange mark in the city, and given over to AA when he came to the city after the attack.
Action: When child is born AA's sister takes the child directly to Sylvanus until Car Albion battle is ended. Then public showing of AA's kid with AA and Xath. Jaine can be present, but not the son.

Another- Xath was pregnant the whole time. She just used magic to keep it underwraps, so no one could directly target the child. Archonus was really taking the babies pain the whole time. It may look all human, but it just takes after dad more that's all. And if it ends up with that high CHA for personality who knows it may be the prefect bard in training in a few years- thus taking after mommy Xath.

Another- It is his child, and the biological mother is no more. AA gives silence if anything else is asked. Xath is called mom. People may question, but no matter what gets said they may question and imagine things. This also keeps open an easy way to slide the kid in if something should happen to the brother.

By the way, these are just the rumages of what came to mind first. Both can get trickey and both may be too complex, but hey you asked for suggestions

All of these are sufficiently plausible, I suppose - though how you'd explain that Xath was pregnant the whole time would be *very* tricky. Has she even had her current body for 8-10 months?

Note - elven pregnancy (particularly pregnancies that will result in half-elven births) simply cannot take two years - since elven males + human females and elven females + human males all make the same kind of half-elves, pregnancy between the two species must be a great deal more similar than the infamous BoEF would have us believe. Barring a good logical argument, it happens for all the human-like races (ie, all of them that can half-breed at will) in 8-10 months.

 

[Archon]

"Another- It is his child, and the biological mother is no more. AA gives silence if anything else is asked. Xath is called mom. People may question, but no matter what gets said they may question and imagine things. This also keeps open an easy way to slide the kid in if something should happen to the brother." - L'Aurel
i like this idea. it involves the least amount of deception and leaves the most room for later explaination.

 

[Laurel]

I just remember a few weeks ago this question of what will happen got brought up, and just wanted to say the following.
Honestly Mik it is what you or what you and Gertie want from a character stand point. When all this first got talked about, as Kennon stated, you kept saying that you wanted AA to have the child or one of the children. There are many reasons that at the time it was a good issue to push, with the mark needing to be explianed and all. AA can change his mind, and by no means am I or I think anyone else trying to push you to go one way or the other. It's AA's choice and therefore yours. It's a personal character twist
AA can refuse the kid, AB does share the mark and blood. He may dislike it, but if AA refuses the child he doesn't have much choice. Neither of them do.
By taking the kid or by letting them be raised together are both risky and both big chances to take. As with the whole thing nothing is going to be the perfect answer nor an easy choice.

Sorry just didn't want you to choose one way or the other by force

 

[Laurel]

All of these are sufficiently plausible, I suppose - though how you'd explain that Xath was pregnant the whole time would be *very* tricky. Has she even had her current body for 8-10 months?

Note - elven pregnancy (particularly pregnancies that will result in half-elven births) simply cannot take two years - since elven males + human females and elven females + human males all make the same kind of half-elves, pregnancy between the two species must be a great deal more similar than the infamous BoEF would have us believe. Barring a good logical argument, it happens for all the human-like races (ie, all of them that can half-breed at will) in 8-10 months.

She has had her body since day 14 our our travels... we are now past the 7 month mark and that is going by low numbers (son't have all the chapters between day timeline and AD/T timeline) and using 30 day months. So it would have to have happened fast, but definitely possible. It may be a premature, but in a world of magic and with all this super magic around it is not impossible. And really doesn't she just need to borrow Archonus' hat of disguise so her tummy's not so puggy.
Most of our fighting has been circle only, and even then Xath hasn't been one tumbling and dancing around..... But as I said, my suggestions may not be easy and that they may be overly complex

 

[The_Universe]

She has had her body since day 14 our our travels... we are now past the 7 month mark and that is going by low numbers (son't have all the chapters between day timeline and AD/T timeline) and using 30 day months. So it would have to have happened fast, but definitely possible. It may be a premature, but in a world of magic and with all this super magic around it is not impossible. And really doesn't she just need to borrow Archonus' hat of disguise so her tummy's not so puggy.
Most of our fighting has been circle only, and even then Xath hasn't been one tumbling and dancing around..... But as I said, my suggestions may not be easy and that they may be overly complex

Just doing a logic check. So, as I said, any of Kat's explanations will work, though some make Archon seem more like a man-slut than others. I'd say a Xath pregnancy is at least plausible, so long as one doesn't look too closely at her biological parentage - fortunately, for the most part, people will assume that Aeron Stormwind is her biological father, since they are now both elves. They'll be wrong (as her body's biological father is actually Inelliron, the regent of Hyrwl), but it would be easy to make that assumption. He can just say that there's a human in the line...somewhere.

Good appraisal of the situation Kat - and you're exactly right. If you *really* want the children to stay together, you can make it happen.

Choice is ever present. Unfortunately, she never travels far without her cruel and hulking partner - Consequence. Ah, if we could have but one without the other!

 

[Laurel]

"Another- It is his child, and the biological mother is no more. AA gives silence if anything else is asked. Xath is called mom. People may question, but no matter what gets said they may question and imagine things. This also keeps open an easy way to slide the kid in if something should happen to the brother." - L'Aurel
i like this idea. it involves the least amount of deception and leaves the most room for later explaination.

This breeds the most questions, but also as stated makes for the lesser lies. Just have something better if/when the kid gets old enough to question this story. Silence probably won't get you too many bonus points for being a great dad

 

[The_Universe]

HA!

"Where do babies come from, Daddy?"

"Murder and treachery, my darling - murder and treachery."