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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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[gamiel.livejournal.com]

Suggestion, you could have it that Princess Frosthair's "palace" is connected to an underground river and/or lake and there is from there they get their water. This makes it a bit more miracle like in a way, a Venice in the desert without any connections to the sea and any other rivers than the once that flow from the city.

And now when I think about it, this idea could also be used if you want to go a bit high-fantasy and have dwarfs, or something like that, living underground and using the underground part of the river/lake. Princess Frosthair's people could be trading with them - spices and other aboveground things for the finest metalworking the world have seen, there is also all the mineral based pigments that underground people probably have.

But this idea probably makes Frosthair's people a bit to economical/political powerful, if they not only have control over a greater oasis and more or less monopole on fish trading but also have better metal items then all the other people

P.S. is Frosthair her real name or a working name? It just sounds strange, for me, with a princess in a southern land to be named after Frost

P.P.S what do you mean with 'fishwife'?

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

Just a working name. In fact- let's call her Princess Aksinya for now, I like that name. 'Fishwife' is an insult that others might have for her, as the Prince Prima's wife, because she's a foreigner from this water-themed kingdom.

That's an interesting idea- I imagine that at least part of Aksinya's kingdom's heritage comes down out of the conquering North, sort of like if Vikings/Valyrians had come howling down, looked around, and decided this southern clime wasn't so bad. Perhaps part of how they did it was by bringing their native spirits with, that keep the cool springs running below the surface and keeping contact with the chieftains of the High _kingdomname_ians up in the frozen North.

[gamiel.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps part of how they did it was by bringing their native spirits with, that keep the cool springs running below the surface and keeping contact with the chieftains of the High _kingdomname_ians up in the frozen North."

Native northern spirits keeping things cool... They Have a WENDINGO?!

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

Oooh, creepy. I was actually thinking that the maternal line of descent comes from someone called the White Witch, herself a descendent of the Mountain King- something like a legendary blood-bender.

[gamiel.livejournal.com]

A suggestion on a name on the fore-father is Bore, the Swedish counterpart to Old man winter/Jack Frost or Morozko who is the Russian version

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like those names.

[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

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

sort of like if Vikings/Valyrians had come howling down, looked around, and decided this southern clime wasn't so bad

They did that, traditionally. ^_^ Might also poke into the Celtic tribes of Gaul or the Varangian Guard.

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.