Kingston – R2 - Royal District of Prince Gilbert
We get ready and head out to the Royal castle for the King’s birthday. An Augury is taken to see how presenting the gift will go, the answer is Weal and Woe. Augury everyone, most useful spell ever.
We do hear the Crown Duke and Duchess are going to be there.
At the steps of the palace it is all set up, a huge crowd of commoners, the noble section, and the royals in their carriages.
The Crown Prince and Princess offer seeds “to rebuild his lands”.
The Crown Duke and Duchess arrive next and bring forth an apology and seek forgiveness. He wishes to find a suitable wife. The Crown Duchess has a gift of an offer of marriage from the second son of the Southern Lands to her, and she awaits the King’s blessing. (Cecily’s younger brother Patrick Kyngstwne)
Morys and Cecily then arrive. Cecily presents an offer from her father, the king of the southern lands, an offer to reopen trade dealings.
Niclas approaches alone. He offers a forest, the elves have offered to plant a new forest surrounding Kingston.
Gilbert and Emma approach. They offer a tapestry that was held by brigands from the East, a lost tapestry that was constructed by the King’s Mother.
Theobald then steps forward and offers the gold that was inside of him, as money towards finding who harmed a member of the royal family. The king is taken aback by this accusation of attack, and promises it will be done.
Finally Able offers up his clockwork dragon. The king is surprised, genuinely, and speaks to him about where this was found. Able tells him about the slaying of Frostfang.
With the gift giving from the royal family concluded, the Kingdom of the Tiger and the Island Kingdom are next to present, but we leave before they do so.
We return to the Manor and discuss the gifts. The Crown Prince’s gift of seeds and the offer of the Crown Duke and Duchess is surprising. We discuss the ramifications.
We then head to the Party held by Morys and Cecily. We speak to Niclas about his uncle Patrick, he has a vague memory of seeing him when he was young. His mother and Patrick do not get along, because Patrick was against Female Inheritance of title.
We then speak to Ellenaril Carsatra about the Moon Shine Silver Dragonborn Clan. He tells us there is the remains of their settlement in the forest to the West. I am We are welcome to go there, if we wish.
We return to the Manor and see that Gilbert and Emma have provided a huge boulder for Simon, for Boulder Pushing Day. After some Boulder pushing, Codex uses several stone shapes and temporary mastery of carving to transform the stone into three statues – Emma, Gilbert, and Able, in a family pose. Able frowning, Gilbert with his hand on Able’s shoulder, Emma with her hand around Able’s waist. Emma loves it!
We speak briefly to Rosa Lytton about Catherine and her pushing the appointment of Sabre Khaludz to Vizier. She doesn’t know, as her relationship with her sister in law became more and more distant. It is possible her youngest sister Frowena would know. Speaking of which, Frowena’s daughter Lydia is present, and Able dances with her.
Able speaks to us privately that he has been given a message that he was being tracked, and to be cautious. Able is worried about this, he suspects that Lydia slipped it to him while they danced.
Codex uses a sending to his sister Jynx and then finds out she is outside. He goes outside to speak to her, and in exchange for a diamond she answers a few of his questions. She knows that the mercenaries were hired by Utopah Dayseeker, bankrolled by the Crown Prince. She also knows that the metal smuggled in was purchased and bankrolled the same way.
Codex asked why the Cinnabar Clan didn’t go. Jynx responds that Flint didn’t like the odds, and didn’t like the army he would be marching with.
Codex finds out that Tyrana deliberately sterilized herself so that she would be considered male in order to be second to Flint. His sister is pretty crazy, and wants to murder Codex for threatening her primacy to her father. Jynx doesn’t want to murder me. Codex offers to help her, and Jynx will consider this.
We rest for the night.