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Lords and Ladies

1 ~ Kings & Queens  Our next step is to examine what we know of the world outside.  Chronicler has an appointment with the Earl of Baeden-bryt at his estates in Treya which is a days ride or about 30 miles away. The Earl is Newarre's local noble and he was granted his title by his king. Aaron is also off to Treya where he is considering 'fighting for his king and his country.' He expects the kings representative there to pay him a whole gold royal for joining the penitent kings army and a royal is a Vintish coin. QED Newarre's king is a Vintish king. The two army deserters we encounter have just been through this process , they have their vintish gold coins and are now sporting the Vintish kings colours of blue and white. Now these are good enough colouring words for the decking out of common foot soldiers but if you were at the other end of the army , up with the top brass, you would wear a much finer uniform that is technically a different colour. The royal guard ...
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Luna Ticks

E π tomes vol II ~ Luna Ticks Lunar Ticks We might be sitting on the doorstep of the Fae now but it's not time to cross over there yet, but since it's so close and fresh it does  seems the perfect  time for another book lesson. Of course, faen time moves at a different scale from mortal, There are stories of boys crossing and returning mere days later as beardy old men, and also of girls missing for years and then returning as if no time has passed at all. My thoughts on these children’s stories are that they are not Felurian related, she isn’t a paedophile, and they are simply other faen realm encounters that occur when folk ignore good advice to stay away from greystones as they are famously regarded as being portals to and from the faen realm. Even Kvothe cannot remember how long he spent there but although he doubts it was a whole year and so it is fair to say that if he doesn’t know then nobody understands just how dual-moon time works…until now. Marlock’s Compendium of F...
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