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[weirdlet]

Odd thought.  Story starts with some tournament or other for the princess's hand, only one of the big contenders is also a princess- in her lands, her title is Prince Prima.  Her younger twin brother's title is Prince Secundus, and he will make her stand with her wife when it comes time for children.  There is much headbutting and huffy princessness and tournamenty goodness, and of course the Prince Prima wins the tournament and there is much consternation.

Adventures proceed from here.

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[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

! Part of the process of wedding Aksinya off is a ritual cutting of ties that A) gifts her to her husband's people and B) cuts her ties to the royal family's ancestral/pet monster-spirits, so that they remain in main-line-of-descent's control and cannot be called upon for a foreigner's wars. This is somewhat devastating (particularly when there's actual magic and strong connection involved), and part of why a bride sometimes cries going off to her husband's family.

The Prince Prima is witnessing this ceremony and seeing how strongly it affects Aksinya, and is all like what are you doing to my wife?!

[gamiel.livejournal.com]

Just wondering, is princess Aksinya going alone to Prince Prima, like Marie Antoinette or Daenerys, or is she given an retinue like a cople of mads and one or two orc amazons as Praetorian guards?

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

I shall have to ponder this.

[gamiel.livejournal.com]

I meant maids not mads