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Who are "the Royal children"?
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5/1/2016
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So I'm making my way through the Shuttered Palace, and one of the tasks is to paint a royal portrait. Interestingly enough, the failure text for "Arrange a Sitting" reads:
One of the most traumatic afternoons of your life.
Oh dear. The Royal children are simply not in the mood to sit still. A couple of the little beasts are playing 'The Vake and the Robbers', which seems to you to be an unnecessarily violent game, even given the subject matter. Others are simply shrieking their heads off for no apparent reason. One eats some of your paint before you can stop him, and is vividly ill on an expensive-looking rug. In fact - quite a few of them are looking green about the gills, but showing concern just encourages their truculence. You try cajolery, bribery and threats, but when they turn on you and start attacking you with your own easel, it is time to leave.
but according to The Gift (Fate locked spoilers!)
[spoiler] aren't all the royal kids locked up inside the cellars getting drunk on red honey and turning into Cthulhu's best buddies? So who exactly at the little brats mentioned here? [/spoiler]
EDIT: Oh never mind, I'm an idiot. On the option right before that, it says "a selection of the Empress' nieces and nephews". Which itself is an interesting question of what they're doing in the Neath, though. Victoria had a half-sister and half-brother, both of which appeared to be in Germany at the time of London's fall and none of their kids would have been children (the youngest would have been ~20). So maybe it's the Empress' metaphorical nieces and nephews, or just plain old inconsistency?
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Hark DeGaul
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nightday wrote:
So I'm making my way through the Shuttered Palace, and one of the tasks is to paint a royal portrait. Interestingly enough, the failure text for "Arrange a Sitting" reads:
One of the most traumatic afternoons of your life.
Oh dear. The Royal children are simply not in the mood to sit still. A couple of the little beasts are playing 'The Vake and the Robbers', which seems to you to be an unnecessarily violent game, even given the subject matter. Others are simply shrieking their heads off for no apparent reason. One eats some of your paint before you can stop him, and is vividly ill on an expensive-looking rug. In fact - quite a few of them are looking green about the gills, but showing concern just encourages their truculence. You try cajolery, bribery and threats, but when they turn on you and start attacking you with your own easel, it is time to leave.
All the royal children would be adults by the time the game is set, as the Captivating Princess is the fictional 'youngest child' and she's already an adult.
[spoiler]There's some suggestion in the Gift I think that the oldest child of the Empress, Princess Victoria, remained on the Surface when London fell and her children from before the Fall (Kaiser Wilhelm and Charlotte) are almost certainly up there also. I think it's likely her other six children are also on the Surface.[/spoiler]
They are most probably the younger set of Victoria's grandchildren. If the modern day is assumed to be somewhere between 1889 and 1894 for Fallen London, then Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh's oldest son is 20, but his youngest child (Beatrice) is only 10 at most. Arthur, Duke of Connaught's children (Margaret, Arthur and Patricia) were born between 1882 and 1886 so would also likely be young. Leopold's son and daughter were around the same ages and Princess Beatrice's children were even younger.
I'm not sure on the dates for most of her great-grandchildren, but it is possible that the future kings Edward VIII could eventually be included as he will be born in a few months game time. It is even plausible that some of the stillborn children of the royal family (such as Alaistar, Marquis of Macduff) would be alive in the Neath due to the weird way death works down here.
This list isn't at all exhaustive, I'm no expert in the Victorian era, but hopefully it's given an okay sample of who the Royal Children could contain.
(Edit: Oops, nevermind then.)
edited by Hark DeGaul on 5/1/2016
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