#askmorgiana

[kroashent]

what are each characters thoughts on Kat and Gwae's relationship or lack there of and where do the stand on the betting pool (can be kept between their close friends and Kat and Gwae themselves)

Kathalia: Relationship with Gwae? (awkward laugh) I don't know what you're talking about. First of all, I'm not into girls. I've had plenty of boyfriends like... erm... well there... umm... (unconvincing mumbling) Point is, there is nothing between Gwae and I. Its not like I lay awake at night thinking about the cute way she bites her lip, or her ice-blue eyes or her laugh...

Gwae: (Blushes deeply). A relationship? With... umm... with Kathalia? Oh no, she's just me bodyguard. Strictly professional. (Bites lip). She's probably not interested anyway. Sure, she's a proper redser beour, and brave, and clever and kind, but her bein' me mot? That's just ... Ye know what they say about us Fair Folk, we're so prone to frivolous fantasies (Bites lip) … No, I dinnae think she'd be interested in that sort of ting... Why? Did... um... did she happen t'say sometin'?

Marie: Kathalia and Gwae? Oh they're very good friends and they'd make a very cute couple for sure, (if either of them made a move!) Can you imagine the songs? (Writes furiously)... The Knight and the Ice Maiden? Fire and snow? The Lai of Bisclavret? hmm... I can workshop it.

Morgiana: Oh those two? They can't keep their eyes off each other, but I think they're both too oblivious to notice the other one has it just as bad. Its so much fun to mess with them though. Despite what she thinks, Kathalia is about as straight as a wet noodle and even slight overt flirting will send her into a babbling panic and Gwae into a fit of pouting jealousy. Of course, if either actually does anything, I'm more than happy to share.

Enora: Bisclavret and Guildmistress Dethemir? Hmm. Interesting. That would explain a few things.

Antoinette: The aloof Ice Maiden and her shadowy lover, the Queen of the Outlaws? I ship them. Its not explicitly in the songs, but you can tell there's a subtext there. I hope they expand upon it in the next song. Really an untapped narrative. I've actually written one myself if you want to hear it. I mean, its not a real song, of course. Its fiction. What can I say, I'm a fan.

[kroashent]

Have any of you ever met a Garwaf, how did it go, and are their negative reputations warrented?

Kathalia: Their reputation is incredibly warranted. After King Phillipe, may the rotter wander the White Plain forever, betrayed the Knights, a group of us fled into the ar goat Armorica. A garwaf moonpack caught our scent three days after we crossed into the March of La Mee. They left the wounded untouched in the first attack. Not to spare them, but to slow us down. They kept coming, every night, beneath the red moon, out of the fucking shadows. I don't want to talk about it anymore.

Gwae: I've never met a garwaf meself, but they are fearsome creatures. They sometimes attack trade caravans in the ar goat. Those reports never end happily.

Marie: I've heard them howl outside the walls of my family's farm, but I have never seen one. I know a lot of songs about them though. Roland at Naoned, the Beast of Guevadan, The Blood Prince... Personally though, nothing. I heard from . . . a friend. . . that one terrorized the slums of Per-Ys a few years ago. The Court of Miracles put a 100 Livre bounty on anyone who could bring in the head of the monster. Dozens tried, but no one succeeded. Well, no one who wasn't a monster themselves. So my friend says at least.

Morgiana: Don't mess with Garwaf. That's how Baba Mustafa got his limp. When he was younger, he was part of a caravan crossing the Shifting Sands. They stopped at an oasis that a wahx also had found. It attacked them, and Baba Mustafa rode his camel for three days straight the way he had come. When he got back home, his hair had turned white. never left the village again.

Enora: Garwaf are a grave threat to the safety of all those I have sworn as a knight to protect, and their reputation cannot be overstated. They have the strength and speed of beasts, but the cunning and hatred of men. I've fought several and no two battles are the same. Only a fool underestimates them.

[kroashent]

*Val's Notes: There is presumably a way to reply multiple times to the same message, but I don't know how yet. This is in reply to @askmitchelltf's original "Ask Kroashent" question, as follows:

"To the cast, Do you often stay as guests to nobles, and if so, what are the weirdest OTHER guests."

Morgiana:

The great and powerful Morgiana stays where she pleases. She has been the guest of kings and caliphs from Serenissima to Samarobriva. She is welcomed in the golden palaces of Ubar and the great halls of the lost peninsula. Any rumors you have heard that she lives in a cart are false. Morgiana travels in luxury as befitting her station as a princess etranger from the caliphate of Falsedat.

Falsedat? Oh, it’s a grand kingdom of gold and silver, where whine and honey flow as water. It’s very far away, so that’s why you’ve never heard of it.

Morgiana is always the most interesting guest, though she dines with princes and perfects from Pharos to Poitiers. (Stomachs growls)

. . . Perhaps, if you are offering a meal on this night, the magnanimous and generous Morgiana, master illusionist and beloved performer, will deign to visit for dinner.

Please. Morgiana is very hungry.