[PUBLIC CHANNEL] RINGMASTER'S TENTH ADDRESS (LATE D60)

[lordofthering]

[The Ringmaster is here to give you some information.]

It seems useful for everyone to know that the Blue Rose is currently trying to escape its container. It's not succeeding... but it is certainly trying. I'm keeping an eye on it for now, but my current assumption is that our assailants are somehow responsible.

Comments

[whattaprick]

Don't rulers usually want to make sure they've got an heir?

[ Considering how the Winter Maiden (possibly) got to where she is, maybe not so much. ]

Considering this all happened a while ago, you can't say she hasn't had the time to make one.

[lordofthering]

It's complicated.

It takes a lot for them to create a new Maiden, and usually the ascension is a collaboration. The Queen becomes the Crone, the old Crone donates their energy towards making a new Maiden. Yet, because the Queen died, there was no ascension to Crone, so the old Crone is still here.

Ascending to Queen in the first place would have taken a lot of power, so without the Crone's help, it is possible she doesn't have the expendable strength to do it, yet.

[whattaprick]

Huh. Is the Summer Court in the same bind, with the Summer Maiden not in Arcadia? Guess the Rose could help them with that problem.

[ Though in his opinion, the aggressiveness strikes him more as Winter wanting to bury the bodies. It pre-dated ever getting the Rose, after all. He's also not sure what the implications of having an incomplete set of three really are, but doesn't take a genius to know a less than full set of anything is a bad thing, magically speaking. ]

[lordofthering]

It's worse for the Summer Court. They literally can't make a new Maiden while the old one is still around.

[whattaprick]

Can't the Summer Queen just order her home?

[lordofthering]

[She almost sounds offended:]

Obviously not.

[whattaprick]

Had to ask. I don't know how this works -- this whole making a Maiden thing sounds like the bloodbond stuff.

[ A pause. ]

So Maiden, Queen, and Crone. Does anything come after being Crone?

[lordofthering]

Ceasing to exist.

[whattaprick]

That doesn’t sound like much incentive.

[lordofthering]

They usually seem pretty into it. I guess it's a Queen thing.

[whattaprick]

I don't think I'll ever understand fae.