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Shipwreck Light ([personal profile] shipwreck_light) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlounge 2012-07-19 08:17 pm (UTC)

Re: Sit on the couch with SWL.

IRL, "courtier" was just an incidental terminology from the outline I fished out from under my bed. I don't recall exactly why I picked that word, just that I did want to use something besides "assassin" on account of the fact courtiers do things besides assassinate. Manor, Lord, Second, Court of the Manor and such all stemmed from having that word around in the first place. So, oddly enough there are no lords without courtiers. I've been operating on the assumption Doc started out as a term of endearment and isn't called that or perhaps even discussed in The Book of Venom.

And speaking of making weird references, The Book of Venom is a real thing, although much different than the one seen in the story. Google it if you want a LOL.

In much the same way there were no people with othersense before there were wights (yep- that's a cannon factoid), there were no lords before any attempt at reconstructing some sort of government, post-war. I know that much. Someone, somewhere got pissed about the way that was handled. Hence, The Book of Venom which discussed ways to subvert the new system.

The Book of Venom and its unsubtle title were somewhat styled after The Book of the Courtier, although the text is quite a bit angrier and goes into digressions about romantic philosophy.

The oldest lord I have named at this point is Lindersfane, who initiated Aetheon (Duclos's father), but she was definitely not the first lord and did not write The Book of Venom. I would also offer the possibility said author was not emself a lord and may not have been serious about the institution ey invented. Then again, ey could have been ABSOLUTELY DEAD SET SERIOUS. No one knows. That person is lost to history.

Personally, I imagine the author as a daydreaming soldier, perhaps a would-be literature major, scratching eir manuscript away in a foxhole and sighing.

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