RE: Broyan's family

From: Jeff Richard <richj_at_...>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:34:19 -0800


John -  

I was imagining that Broyan is much like Lokamayadon in his personal life and an exception to the normal web of kinship networks (the whole Larnsti angle seems to make him a bit independent of that). Dedicated to his magical cause, no wife (Lokomoko married late - and only to marry a near-goddess).  

HOWEVER - I love the year wifes. Or why even go that far - a year wife is still a magical partner and these political tools aren't useful for Broyan's magic. Sod that. But that doesn't mean he doesn't sleep around. He's got girlfriends, lovers, bedwarmers - but not a wife. I love the current girlfriend idea.  

Although the loveless Heartmistress is really appealing.  

Jeff

	-----Original Message-----
	From: John Hughes [mailto:john.hughes_at_...] 
	Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 3:28 PM
	To: whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com
	Subject: Re: Broyan's family
	
	
	Initial thought: Scratch any Heortling hero and you find a
kinship network. 
	Doubly so for a man on the move like Broyan: for tanists aiming
for High 
	King, marriage alliance is part of the toolkit.
	
	I'd like to have a few of Broyan's younger brothers involved in
the siege, 
	if only so we can kill 'em off at existential moments. 'Cept for
young 
	Danwyr of course: he absconded with half the family jewels back
in '14, and 
	was last heard of via a postcard from the pleasure palace at
Karse.         

        And sisters' husbands who are all probably chiefs and petty kings, involved

        in all this but not necessarily liking it. Part of the King's Household

        perhaps?         

        Broyan's wives. Let take a slasher to stereotypes here. Hows about: he's

        had a succession of year wives, some of whom have borne him children, and

        who are still part of the King's Household. His current wife is a part of a

        key alliance deal, and there's no love lost between them. She's TERRIFYING
        though, gives dishthanes heart attacks and runs the King's Household like

        an ogress. Lets call her the Hearthmistress, cause Questlines is down for

        some reason and I can't get to the Heortling Name Generator.         

        And Broyan should have a current girlfriend, a self opinionated hero-type

        advisor who can make full use of executive access. Not Kallyr, obviously,

        she doesn't swing that way. ('Neither wedded nor bedded' by anyone less

        than a god. Pure class.)                  

        Cheers         

        John                           

        The New World Is Born On the Walls On Whitewall. Come the Hurricane!                  

        The New World Can Be Healed. Whitewall Must Fall!                                             

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