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The fate of the Consort
Mysterious Gentleman
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4/7/2013
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Has anyone confirmed what fate befell the Traitor Empress' dear Consort? I have my own theories but I'd like to hear yours.
My investigations at the Palace and the University lead me to believe that the Consort is the Cantigaster, tethered in the cellars beneath the Shuttered Palace. The Duchess seems fond of him (infidelity, perhaps?)
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Diptych
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4/7/2013
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You see him around the Court all the time, alive and... well, alive, at least. We know the Cantigaster's story - Second City, serpent bite, deal with the Bazaar. There, the price was obvious. In the Empress and the Consort's case, well... neither of them seem to be entirely at their best. There's a strange look about them... a curious aversion to loud noises and certain other stimuli... a penchant for exotic, dream-haunting pets... and, of course, a Labyrinth full of twisted, mirror-hopping children, hidden away from the eyes of the world.
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Lady Taimi Felix
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7/1/2015
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TheThirdPolice wrote:
"The first taught restraint and the second betrayed. The third taught us hunger: the fourth we remade. The fifth will live on in the heart of the Sun, and the sixth..."
Is this the price not known? The rise of the Dawn Machine? But how does it relate to the Consort? And why am I awake at 4am trawling through years-old forum threads?
Those are certainly the lessons learned by the Masters and not the rulers who sold their cities. The Empress received her boon in exchange for selling London, just as all the rest had done. I doubt the result was exactly what she was hoping for (i.e., the price not known), but, well, it turns out that grief-stricken bargaining with tricksy alien space bats isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I do wonder why London will live on in the heart of the Sun though. Anyone have any musings on the matter?
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Lady Taimi Felix: Devoted Wife. Invisible Eminence. Patron of the Shadowy Arts. Monster Hunter. Lady of Adventure. Exceptionally Lethal. Loves a Good Chat over Coffee.
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